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Game-changing Upgrade for Australia’s Largest Firefighting Helicopter

December 9, 2024

Oklahoma National Guard Supports Wildland Firefighting

August 4, 2022

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Army National Guard helicopter crews dropped nearly 400,000 gallons of water on wildfires in Northwestern Oklahoma July 16-19 and 27-29. During...

Bernalillo County Sheriff Helicopter Crashes While Working East Mesa Fire

July 17, 2022

Albuquerque, New Mexico - In a press release posted today by the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office, the agency confirmed the loss of their Metro...

Field Tests Help Prepare NASA Tech for Fire Season

July 6, 2022

Even before the summer’s hottest, driest weather has arrived, wildfires have taken a heavy toll in some parts of the U.S. This spring, in collaboration...

Portugal Enters “Acute Firefighting Stage” With €52 Million Budget

July 6, 2022

Almost 13,000 firefighters, 3,602 teams, 2,822 vehicles and 60 ‘aerial assets’ Portugal’s acute firefighting stage began on July 1 with a budget of €52 million,...

Smooth is Fast

July 5, 2022

By James Williams There is an idiom that says, “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” The expression was made famous by special operations soldiers to...

“It’s a war”: California turns to new, high-tech helicopters to battle wildfires

June 27, 2022

California - Last summer, California suffered one of the most savage fire years in its history. Drought and scorching temperatures turbocharged fires that were...

302 AW Airmen Embody Agile Combat Employment via Aerial Firefighting

June 24, 2022

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. -- In January 2022, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., signed the service’s first doctrine publication on...

Four Tanker Planes Added to Firefighting Fleet After Maintenance

June 20, 2022

Türkiye’s national body on aviation activities, Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK), has made four CL-215 type amphibious tanker planes ready to combat wildfires and added...

DNR Prepositions Aircraft in NW Region

June 20, 2022

In spite of the wet spring that’s delaying severe wildfires across the state, the heart of Washington’s fire season is just around the corner....

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Airwolf Aerospace Receives More STC Approvals with Two New EASA STCs for True Blue Power® Lithium-ion Batteries in Eight Helicopter Models

Conair Purchases the Daher TBM 960 to Fight Wildfires

Momentum Aeronautics Nears STC Approval of the New Model 11600 Scooping Floats for the Air Tractor 802A

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

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Australia Certifies Recoil’s Tsunami Aerial Firefighting Tank System

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