As an epilogue, Omega Air continues to refuel US aircraft with ex-Japan Airlines and Dutch KC-10 even after the Air Force ...

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 ...

Aerial firefighting has become an essential part of wildfire suppression strategies, offering the speed, precision, and ...

As wildfires continue to burn in California, the Albuquerque-based 10 Tanker is still hard at work helping ground crews with ...

PHOENIX - When firefighters on the ground need some extra support, they call in air tankers. There are four DC 10 tankers in the world, and one of them is right here in the Valley. "What we do ...

A fleet of firefighting aircraft sits at the Santa Maria Public Airport where the state's extreme fire weather has led to an ...

Thousands of firefighters and volunteers have been working over the last week to tackle the Los Angeles wildfires. Helping in that fight is Albuquerque-based 10 Tanker. Its fleet consists of four ...

There is no precision equipment or autopilot for fire drops, just a pilot's view through the windscreen and his experience.

works for 10 Tanker, an aerial firefighting organization. He flies a DC-10 Air Tanker. He helped to drop more than 175,000 gallons of fire retardant during more than a dozen flights over the fires ...

To fight the California fires, 10Tanker has four DC-10s and two — ships 912 and 914 — here in San Bernardino at the old Norton Air Force Base ... because we're the biggest tanker out here. This fire ...