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?

Congressman Jake Ellzey announced his support for the Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025, a bipartisan effort to improve the nation's aerial firefighting capabilities by reauthorizing the ...

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

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 ...

Conair’s TBM 960 birddog duties will build upon the aircraft family’s proven multi-mission applications, including military ...

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

At Neptune Aviation, an aerial firefighting company based in Missoula, maintenance crews work throughout the winter to keep ...

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 ...

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

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