In order to reach remote fires in the State Responsibility Area, CAL FIRE maintains a fleet of firefighting aircraft, many of ...

Cal Fire has its own fleet of aircraft operating from 14 airfields and 11 helicopter bases across the state that can reach most fires within about 20 minutes.

Aerial firefighting companies have rushed aircraft to Southern California in recent days to battle a wind-whipped inferno ...

Strong Santa Ana winds have complicated firefighting operations, making it difficult to execute precise aerial drops of ...

The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service ...

Cal Fire will receive two more CL-415 Super Scoopers from a Canadian non-profit to replace the one damaged Thursday by a ...

Houston firefighters are expressing solidarity with their colleagues in California battling devastating wildfires, offering ...

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Firefighters in California are using technologies ranging from AI-powered sensors to kerosene-powered aircraft to beat back ...

The aircraft landed safely and the incident is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), officials ...

The deadly winter fires in California are another warning for Australians to reassess climate risks, where we live and how we ...

Calming winds allowed aerial firefighters to deploy in Southern California late Wednesday as wildfires continued to plague ...