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Structures ‘Likely Lost’ as Two Wyoming Wildfires Grow by Miles

October 1, 2024

Will Increased Risk Bring Canada’s Air Force into the Aerial Wildfire Fight?

November 6, 2023

By Nancy Argyle During the spring and summer of 2023, a concerned world watched as Canada burned. Toxic smoke from 29 mega-fires, each exceeding 100,000...

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...

BLM Expected to Expand Operations in New Mexico

February 23, 2023

The Roswell Air Center Airport, located in New Mexico, also houses a U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) aerial firefighting base on the east...

Bridger Showcases FireTrac at CES in Las Vegas

January 6, 2023

Bridger Aerospace Group is showcasing its new wildfire monitoring app, FireTrac, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week from January 5-8,...

Coulson Assets Arrive in Melbourne as Season Kicks Off

January 3, 2023

As the fire season in the northern hemisphere winds down, arrivals and preparations have begun as aviation assets contracted through the National Aerial Firefighting...

Firefighter Safety During Aerial Operations

January 3, 2023

During my 35 years as a wildland firefighter, I've been involved and privy to many stories about near-death experiences. Those stories often involved ground...

European Fire Suppressant Tested Stateside for First Time Ever at Rifle Garfield County Airport

October 11, 2022

Rifle Garfield County Airport played host Monday to the nation’s very first exhibition of a fire suppressant common to Europe. Burning brush piles collected from...

Mechanized Birds: Wildland Firefighting With Drone Intelligence

October 6, 2022

The robotic birds of the sky, known colloquially as drones, were a menace to the wildland firefighting community. The mere appearance of a recreational...

The Dangers of Misinformation in Wildland Fire Aviation

September 9, 2022

The Balance of Cost versus Benefit Wildland fire agencies have a huge reliance on the private sector to provide the assets and many times the...

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