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 ...

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?

While some Angelenos cast around for someone to blame, a whole cooperative emergency-response system whirred to life.

The US Forest Service is fighting to keep in place a plan to raze the equivalent of 500 Central Parks in California’s forests ...

During the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, a man used a drone to take aerial photographs and put a fire-fighting aircraft ...

The drone, which authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9, put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper — a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water ...

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

As the Hughes Fire rages near Castaic on4, 2025, U.S. Air National Guard Maj. Cameron Shepard and Capt. Carlos Puga are hard ...

Ariel firefighting aircraft have come to play an important role in fighting wildfires ... Meanwhile, just hours after the Palisades fire erupted, another fire started in a national forest north of Los ...

A dramatic video takes viewers inside the cockpit of a California Air National Guard plane being used to fight the growing ...

EXETER – A storeroom behind the headquarters of the state Forest Fire Program is usually ... “It's about fighting fires, and not about aesthetics, but if they’re going to sell it on an ...