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Historic KC-97 Air Tanker Joins Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting
The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting has welcomed a Boeing KC-97 (Tanker 97) donated by the Berlin Airlift Historical ...
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Rain Leads to Return of Permitted Burns, Closure of Santa Maria Air Tanker Base
Rainstorms earlier this month prompted Santa Barbara County officials to declare an end to High Fire Season and allowed ...
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Austin Bay: Diego Garcia: The American nowhere vexing China and Iran
The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...
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Royal Air Force Conducts First Air-to-Air Refueling With German Tanker
The Royal Air Force has conducted its first air-to-air refueling of Typhoons with a German Air Force Atlas A400M.
What it’s like for Californians caught in the Patagonia forest fires
A journalist from California is caught in the wildfires in Patagonia, Argentina, at the same time L.A. faces the same ...
After nearly a week, 6,625-acre Otay Mountain brush fire declared fully contained
Gusty winds and then much-needed rain played a big role in the week firefighters worked to get 100% containment ...
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Santa Maria Air Tanker Base opens in its offseason, to help with fires in Southern California
The Santa Maria Air Tanker Base has reopened to help host the air tankers and other aircraft being sent to aid in the Southern California wildfires. "We have 4 water scooping aircraft that can ...
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Firefighting efforts ramp up in Tasmania ahead of high danger days
Two large air tankers, including a C130 Hercules from NSW will be used in the response to the Canning Peak fire. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service spokesperson Ashley Rushton said the tankers ...