With two days of high fire danger expected this week, firefighters battling 16 blazes in Tasmania's west are ramping up efforts, which include multiple helicopters, a C130 Hercules and help from the ...

Aerial firefighting has become an essential part of wildfire suppression strategies, offering the speed, precision, and ...

When the wildfires broke out on Jan. 7 across Los Angeles County, the unprecedented force of the Santa Ana winds delayed the aerial firefighting response. Although winds reached 100 mph at their peak, ...

As wildfires continue to burn in California, the Albuquerque-based 10 Tanker is still hard at work helping ground crews with ...

I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

Interviews with pilots paint a graphic picture of the struggle to maintain control of their ships amid one of the most ...

A video shows the cockpit view of California Air National Guard pilots flying low and dropping fire retardant over the Hughes Fire in Los Angeles County.

We're the biggest tanker fighting the California wildfires ... dropping water to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are designed to carry ...

Aerial support during the California wildfires has been grounded at times by high winds. Here's what the aircrafts do and why they can't fly in certain conditions.

I'm a third-generation ground firefighter who ended up in the air fighting fire, so my career has come ... in the Forest Service's arsenal because we're the biggest tanker out here. This fire is ...

Pilots flying fixed- and rotor-wing aircraft face numerous challenges in fighting fires ... the helicopters or the air tankers, they're below the ridge line. They're having to proceed in from ...

Super Scoopers can carry far heavier loads than helicopters equipped with buckets, and — unlike air tankers ... tool for fighting fires, the Los Angeles County Fire Department has said.