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Wisconsin National Guard Black Hawk Helicopters Sent to California and Washington to Assist With Wildfires

Three Wisconsin National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and 23 Soldiers will assist California and Washington as those states battle wildfires raging across their...

Colorado’s Division of Fire Prevention and Control & United Rotorcraft Sign Deal for New S-70i Firehawk

The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) announced today the signing of a contract with United Rotorcraft, a division of Air Methods...

Additional aircraft join CalFire roster, with more on the way

A dozen extra firefighting planes and helicopters joined CalFire last week. Each has taken to the air since in what's shaping up as California's...

Grass Valley/Nevada City Fire report on the Brunswick Fire

At approximately 10:32 a.m. on Monday, August 2, 2021 the Grass Valley / Nevada City Fire Department along with Nevada County Consolidated Fire and...

Extreme smoke hampers aerial firefighting efforts at Two Mile wildfire near Sicamous

The Two Mile Road wildfire’s behaviour has once again escalated. According to the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s (CSRD) fire situation update at 11:45 a.m. on...

Tower Tech – Chasing the American Dream

Titus Gall is, in his own words, fortunate and continually grateful for his lot in life. Born in Holland to Dutch parents and immigrating...

Australian Fire Season In Review

As the nightmare fire season of 2019/2020 was still very fresh in the minds of all Australians, the world was soon to face the...

The Drop – Training to keep us safe

When I was in high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life or career. I knew I liked teaching...

Napa County Seeking its Own Firefighting Helicopter

Napa County will go out to bid to see if it can add a water-dropping helicopter all its own before the heart of wildfire...

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