The Los Angeles fires first started on January 7, 2025, as a result of strong winds. According to NBC, the first area to be impacted was Pacific Palisades, a neighborhood of Los Angeles just east of ...

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.

A drone that authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9 put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper ...

They have brought diverse fleets of fire tanker aircraft to the fight for Los Angeles ... the Air National Guard (ANG), the US Navy, US Forest Service (USFS), Wyoming and Nevada National Guard as well ...

The U.S. Northern Command activated eight of its C-130 aircraft ... Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and ...

Equipped with the MAFFS II system, Leonardo’s C-27J Spartan NG emerges as a versatile multi-mission platform which can deliver precision water/fire ...

is considered extremely cost-effective in fighting wildfires, according to Business Insider. Cal Fire doesn’t own any Super Scoopers. Instead, it has been leasing two of the aircraft from the ...

The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 aircraft come from the 146th Airlift ... began in 1971 as a joint effort between the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense ...

Fighting the deadly wildfires in ... spots on the ground to planes and helicopters providing fire suppression from the air. Specialized aircraft are dropping massive amounts of water and colorful ...