Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.

Multiple aerial firefighting agencies have spent countless hours airborne since the outbreak of the Palisades and Eaton fires ...

It was a pivotal moment, one that marked a shift away from the use of retired military aircraft in aerial firefighting and toward dedicated tankers converted from commercial planes and single ...

Aerial firefighting companies have rushed aircraft to Southern California to battle a wind-whipped inferno that has burned ...

The people flying planes and tankers involved in dousing blazes face hot, sweaty, turbulent conditions — and the risk that ...

Aerial support during the California wildfires has been grounded at times by high winds. Here's what the aircrafts do and why ...

U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) equipped C-130J Super Hercules ...

Some of the visuals coming out of Los Angeles County over the past week are ones we expect with wildfires: dramatic flames, ...

Aerial firefighters with the association are limited ... like Blackhawks and ACH 47 Chinooks, and air tankers, like Grumman S-2T and Lockheed C-130H planes, carrying thousands of gallons of ...

Aerial firefighters with the association are limited to eight-hour ... Among the aircraft supplied by the association are helicopters, like Blackhawks and ACH 47 Chinooks, and air tankers, like ...