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

Conrad "Connie" Kalitta's air transport company is lending a hand to keep the air tankers battling the blazes.

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 ...

No, Kalitta Air is not directly fighting the LA fires, but Michigan-based operation has a special connection to those that ...

R.K. Smithley, father of Xfinity Series driver Garrett, has a unique job — he's one of the pilots helping fire relief in the ...

President-elect Donald Trump has named Troy Meink, a former Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft navigator and former deputy of the National Reconnaissance Office, as his choice to ...

As Los Angeles residents fled an insatiable inferno in Pacific Palisades last week, aerial firefighter Diego Calderoni was ...

A Ligonier native — and a former firefighter at Ligonier Station 43 — is out in California helping fight the devastating ...

Show more Show less In this aerial view taken from a helicopter, an air tanker drops fire retardant on the Kenneth Fire in the Calabasas area of Los Angeles The new Kenneth Fire burst into life ...

"It's tough to see 5,000 houses, structures that are just gone and lives that have been, you know, ruined and lives lost. It's very difficult to see that," Cpt. RK Smithley said.

A growing force of firefighters and equipment has moved into the Los Angeles area. Another round of powerful winds is ...