Fire Regulations

City of Carlsbad Extends Airport Lease With BLM as Wildfire Danger Looms in Eddy County

A camp trailer and small storage shed based at the Cavern City Air Terminal near Carlsbad leased to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) play...

New Cal Fire Director Talks Priorities, Equipment Improvements

In his first Sacramento TV interview since getting the top job, Cal Fire Chief Joe Tyler about his biggest priorities and what keeps him...

Strong Winds Force Grounding of Aircraft Fighting New Mexico Wildfire

Airborne firefighters dumped water and retardants on a raging New Mexico wildfire on Saturday, expediting their mission until gusty afternoon winds grounded their aerial...

Practice runs for fire season

An S-2 air tanker from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection drops water on a simulated fire at a Whitmore ranch Wednesday,...

Innovative Australian Design Helping to Fight Fires All Over The World

By Jennifer Swaine As a qualified engineer and helicopter pilot who had faced off against many bushfires, Jason Schellaars understood the limitations of firefighting tanks...

The Incident Traffic Area

In 2001, I had my first full-time job in wildfire aviation as a helitack Fire Captain. Ignorance was bliss for me in the air,...

Fire in Rio Grande Do Sol a Recurring Problem

By Marcos Antonio Camargo When I started writing this article, we were contacted for another firefighting operation in the fields of the West Frontier of...

Neptune Aviation Pilot Training – Aircraft System and Fire Traffic Area Focused

When Neptune Aviation Services planned to replace its legacy fleet of piston-driven Lockheed P2V Neptunes with BAe 146 regional jets, reconfigured as air tankers,...

San Diego Success! – Tangent Link’s Aerial Firefighting Show Returns to North America

After a two-year hiatus from hosting the aerial firefighting show in the United States, Tangent Link’s Aerial Fire Fighting North America returned to San...

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