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First Arista Firefighting Helicopter Delivered to Portuguese Air Force

ENTERPRISE — It’s been a year in the works, but the first of six UH-60 Black Hawks ordered by the Portuguese Air Force is...

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

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...

California Firefighters Use AI to Battle Wildfires

When a wildfire erupted in the middle of a recent California night, it could have been a disaster. But thanks to a new monitoring system...

Hellenic Air Force – Squadron 355

By Babak Taghvaee The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) has one of Europe's largest fleets of firefighting aircraft. On July 17, 2023, these aircraft became the...

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

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

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?

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...

California Air Guard Mobilized for Aerial Firefighting

By Master Sgt. Nicholas Carzis, 146 Airlift Wing, Public Affairs, California Air National Guard PORT HUENEME, Calif. - Two C-130J Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped aircraft...

Ability and Responsibility: How National Guardsmen are Staving off the Flames of Louisiana’s Wildfires

In the fight to contain and extinguish wildfires across Central and Southwest Louisiana, the Louisiana Army National Guard (LANG) and multiple Army National Guard...

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