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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

converted into air tankers and equipped with the U.S. Forest Service’s Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems. The aircraft can drop up to 3,000 gallons of fire retardant in less than 10 seconds ...

Canada and Quebec will each invest $32 million over three years to acquire equipment to fight forest fires. Canada’s ...

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 ...