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Game-changing Upgrade for Australia’s Largest Firefighting Helicopter

December 9, 2024

November 17, 2021

(KTXL) — The governor’s office confirmed Monday morning California’s top fire official is stepping down. Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter announced he will be retiring...

Kestrel Reaches Night Aerial Firebombing Approval Milestone

November 12, 2021

Following on from its multi-award-winning success in developing an effective night firebombing helicopter program in partnership with the Victorian Government, Kestrel Aviation has now...

Dangerous Drones: Increase in illegal drone flights causes grounded flights, issues for firefighters

November 5, 2021

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Flying a drone is one of the easiest, and now cheapest, ways to get a bird's eye view of almost anything. Yet...

Turkey’s fire-fighting efforts: 3 planes, 39 helicopters

November 3, 2021

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli has shared information about the vehicle inventory used in Turkey's fire-fighting efforts. Answering the Parliamentary question of Republican...

The Dash 8-400AT – Conair’s Next Gen Air Tanker

November 1, 2021

During the 2021 fire season, while Canada and the U.S. developed plans around having access to their combined resources, Mother Nature threw a curveball...

Banning Drones from China Has Hurt U.S. Ability to Fight Forest Fires

October 21, 2021

U.S. government moves restricting agencies access to the massive market of cheap and effective small drones made in China has made it more difficult...

‘It Was Just Wild’: Guardsmen Fight Fires From the Sky

October 21, 2021

So far this year, the National Interagency Fire Center has reported 47,525 wildfires that have burned more than 6.49 million acres across 13 states....

U.S Forest Service Says Goodbye to the Cobra

October 19, 2021

Story cover image by Jason Nava The United States Forest Service said goodbye on October 16th to their Vietnam war-era Cobra helicopters as an aerial...

Greek Firefighting Season Ends as Many Aircraft Head to Australia for Season

October 19, 2021

The Greek firefighting season came to a close this week as crews from all over the world began the process of packing their aircraft...

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