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UAFA Annual Conference Sees Surge in Attendance, Focuses on Wildfire Industry Collaboration

January 6, 2025

New Aerial Wildfire Equipment Needed in Canada

September 19, 2023

A recent analysis reveals that Coulson Aviation, a British Columbia-based company, produces some of the world’s leading aerial wildfire equipment. However, Canada does not...

MP Suggests Island-Based ‘Air Force’ for Fighting Wildfires

September 12, 2023

The MP for Courtenay-Alberni wants the federal government to work with a local company to build a firefighting air force. Gord Johns recently wrote a...

The Price of Readiness: Simple Ways to Support the Aerial Wildfire Industry

September 1, 2023

By UAFA Staff The year 2023 is marked by another severe wildfire season, with Canada losing over 30 million acres of land to the flames...

Artemis: A Q&A with Smith Myers

September 1, 2023

AerialFire spent some time with Peter Myers from Smith Myers, manufacturers of the Artemis system. A system designed to locate firefighters or members of...

Does The UK Need to Do More for Aerial Firefighting?

September 1, 2023

In the last decade, the United Kingdom has seen an increase in large-scale fires, predominantly in the Summer, ranging from fires in fields to...

Aerial Firefighting APAC 2023 – A Dubbo Success Story

August 8, 2023

When looking through the previous locations of the Tangent Link Aerial Firefighting series of conferences with names like Athens, Greece, Nimes, France, Sacramento, California...

Federal Court Sides with Counties, Cities, and Forestry Groups, Ruling USFS May Continue Use of Aerial Fire Retardants to Fight Wildfires

May 26, 2023

MISSOULA, MT — Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana (Court) issued a ruling in a case brought by Forest Service Employees...

Black Widow Helicopters Orders 12 Foresight MX HUMS; Installing as Standard Equipping on UH-60’s

April 13, 2023

Black Widow Helicopters LLC has announced today an order for 12 shipsets of GPMS International's Foresight MX, the industry’s most advanced Health and Usage...

10 Tanker Deploys to Florida for First Time

March 27, 2023

10 Tanker Air Carrier's Tanker 911 has deployed to the newly upgraded fire base in Lake City, just south of the Florida/Georgia border for...

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Billings Flying Service Commends Montana and California Lawmakers in Urging Certification for its Firefighting Helicopters

Avincis Awarded Largest Aerial Firefighting Contract in Europe

Game Aerospace Acquires Grove Aircraft Landing Gear Systems, Accelerating GB2 Aircraft Development

NASCAR Driver Garrett Smithley’s Dad Fighting California Wildfires Piloting DC-10 Air Tanker

‘It’s a Nightmare’: DC 10 Pilot Describes Battling Calif. Wildfires

Inside the Aerial Fire Response in Los Angeles County

UAFA and NWSA: National Firefighter Associations Warn Congress: America’s Wildfire Defense System Needs Immediate Overhaul

Statement From UAFA: Faster Wildfire Response is Critical for American Communities

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