The fight from above is critical in giving firefighters a chance to get some semblance of control over the fires, said one ...

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

Houston firefighters are expressing solidarity with their colleagues in California battling devastating wildfires, offering potential assistance as the situation unfolds.

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

The Pentagon said Friday that two military C-130 Hercules aircraft equipped with a firefighting system are now flying over ...

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

The Pentagon sent C-130 MAFFS-equipped aircraft to fight the LA fires. The water bombers drop nearly 14 tons of fire ...

The Forest Service in California employs a litany of helicopters built for firefighting, dumping thousands of water on raging ...

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.

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

The death toll from the wildfires has risen to 10, authorities say - double the figure announced just hours earlier. The ...

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