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

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 ...

"About four people were thrown southward. We could hear them crying and screaming in the air," Abubakar Jibrin, a witness who narrowly escaped the fire, told PREMIUM TIMES.

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

It’s 9.30 p.m. on Saturday, January 11, and the crew is on its third night working the Palisades fire, a Godzilla of a blaze ...

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 ...

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

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 ...