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Cyprus eyes East Med firefighting hub

Cyprus wants to create an east Mediterranean firefighting hub with neighbours Greece and Israel to tackle huge summer wildfires that could overwhelm any single...

Innovative Australian Design Helping to Fight Fires All Over The World

By Jennifer Swaine As a qualified engineer and helicopter pilot who had faced off against many bushfires, Jason Schellaars understood the limitations of firefighting tanks...

The Drop – Shows are Back!

As the new fire season approaches, I know I'm not the only one expecting a busy one. Busy is good for businesses that work...

Fire in Rio Grande Do Sol a Recurring Problem

By Marcos Antonio Camargo When I started writing this article, we were contacted for another firefighting operation in the fields of the West Frontier of...

Coulson Continues Night Aerial Firefighting Work in Australia

Aerial firefighting continues to evolve rapidly worldwide, with a growing demand by various agencies to bring technology and functionality into their contracts. Australia is...

Neptune Aviation Pilot Training – Aircraft System and Fire Traffic Area Focused

When Neptune Aviation Services planned to replace its legacy fleet of piston-driven Lockheed P2V Neptunes with BAe 146 regional jets, reconfigured as air tankers,...

San Diego Success! – Tangent Link’s Aerial Firefighting Show Returns to North America

After a two-year hiatus from hosting the aerial firefighting show in the United States, Tangent Link’s Aerial Fire Fighting North America returned to San...

Cyprus Seeks EU Sanctions Out to Get Russian Firefighting Help

Cyprus wants an exemption from European Union sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine to lease Russian-made helicopters designed to fight fires. The Foreign...

Celebrating 50 years of bushfire aerial detection

2022 marks the 50-year anniversary of Western Australia's bushfire aerial detection fleet - a small fleet of planes flown by skilled pilots that helps...

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