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UAFA Champions Legislative Solutions for Enhanced Wildfire Response

May 1, 2024

Wildfire Risk Rising; Lands Commissioner Franz Unveils Statewide Wildfire Plan, Calls for Change

May 2, 2019

OLYMPIA – Washington state has a wildfire crisis. In 2018, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources – the state’s largest wildfire fighting force...

Georgia Forestry Commission buys two Switchbacks

April 29, 2019

Recently, the Georgia Forestry Commission advanced its aerial firefighting program with the purchase of two new 510G Switchback Thrushes. The aircraft were introduced to...

Hellenic Air Force suffers its second CL-215 crash of the year.

June 9, 2017

The status of Greece’s aerial fire-fighting armada is in crisis after the Hellenic Air Force endured its third major CL-215/415 disaster since 2014. On June 26, 2016 at 11:09 GMT, the piston-engine, fire-fighting aircraft of the Hellenic Air Force, the Canadair CL-215, crashed close to the village of Stefani, near the Dervenochoria area, approximately 30 km northwest of Athens.

Providing aid to Chile

April 26, 2017

Fresh off a mission in Israel in November, the big Boeing made the five-thousand plus mile trip to Santiago arriving January 25. It was immediately put to work and its 20,000-gallon drop capacity soon made a difference in the firefight. After being credited with saving several communities from certain destruction, the SuperTanker team was given an award by the Chilean Red Cross for its humanitarian act.

Senator John McCain confirmed to address Aerial Firefighting leaders at AFF 2016

March 26, 2016

With only six weeks to go until the Aerial Firefighting conference in Sacramento, California (22-23 March 2016), Senator John McCain, the U.S. Senator for...

The next generation Air Tanker

January 18, 2016

After many years of speculation and rumors, the United States Forest Service has finally decided that it is time to stop cutting bait and actually start fishing. On November 30th, the agency posted a solicitation for bids for what they call the “Next Generation Air Tanker”.

Croatia transforms its sole land-based AT-802A into an amphibian Fire Boss

May 9, 2010

The Croatian Air Force (Hrvatsko Ratno Zrakoplovstvo - HRZ) has recently increased its amphibian firefighting fleet by one aircraft. This was achieved by the conversion of a land-based Air Tractor AT-802A (military serial number 896) into an amphibian Air Tractor AT-802A Fire Boss.

Fires Not Over in California as Brush Fire Causes Evacuations, Airborne Response

January 1, 1970

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