An aircraft operations manager is coming from New Zealand to help with the fire fighting efforts ... additional capability as a pre-emptive measure in the south of the state for any new fires.

Footage shot from the cockpit of a firefighting aircraft shows a U.S. Air National Guard pilot dropping fire retardant over the Hughes Fire in Southern California on Wednesday.

And it’s not just fields of dry vegetation that should have us concerned. Corelogic estimates 244,617 Texas homes are ...

NIU STEAM is back to fight a five-alarm blaze burning with question marks: Why can't salt water be used to put out forest fires?

Developers of autonomous aerial vehicles hope their advancements will soon be deployed more widely, but there are still regulatory and logistical hurdles to clear.

referring to the fire-fighting aircraft. "And that's just on the federal, state and local level." Engines are pre-deployed in Sun Valley at Station 77, Woodland Hills at Station 84, West Los ...

Amid tensions between NATO allies, with several European members at odds with Washington’s perspective, the Danish Defence ...

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires also continue burning in the Los Angeles area, leaving parts of Southern California with devastating fire damage.

MAFFS, or Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems, transforms a military transport into an aerial firefighter. In an interview ...

Smithley dropped red fire retardant over the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles. Mountainous terrain, winds, busy air traffic, and drones have complicated the mission. I'm a third-generation ...

The F-16 Fighting Falcon is the world's most common fixed-wing aircraft in military service. T he United States Air Force is ...

Captain RK Smithley flies McDonnell Douglas DC-10 fire bombers for New Mexico ... The DC-10 is one of dozens of aircraft assisting in fighting the California wildfires near Los Angeles.