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First locally based Large Air Tanker to fight WA bushfires

The McGowan Labor Government has committed $11 million over four years in the 2022-23 State Budget to secure the first Large Air Tanker (LAT)...

De Havilland Aircraft Launches DHC-515 Firefighter

CALGARY, AB and BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 31, 2022 /CNW/ - De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (De Havilland Canada) is pleased to announce that it has launched the De Havilland DHC-515 Firefighter (formerly known as...

From Generation to Generation – Aero Agrícola Rondon

Gastão Lourenço de Lima founded Aero Agrícola Rondon in 1982 in Tangará da Serra in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. The company was...

Ben Buckley’s exit an unlikely end to a dangerous life

They will tell a power of stories about Ben Buckley at his funeral this Friday, most of them true. The bush pilot from Benambra on...

Milestone Partners with Helitak to Develop Aerial Firefighting Capabilities for the S-92A

The Milestone Aviation Group Limited (“Milestone”), the global leader in helicopter leasing, has partnered with Australian fire-fighting equipment designer, Helitak Firefighting Equipment Pty Ltd...

Fire Service Partners Air Force on Aerial Firefighting

A committee has been set up to commence the processes of collaboration on aerial firefighting between the Federal Fire Service and the Nigerian Air...

HISPASAT and Pyro Join Forces for Comprehensive Forest Protection Using Satellites

HISPASAT, the Spanish operator and satellite solutions and services provider of the Red Eléctrica Group, has reached an agreement with Pyro, a specialist in...

UN Report Predicts Forest Fire Increase by 50% by 2100

A new report published today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has predicted that even if greenhouse gases are reduced the next one...

Olegas Bluff Bushfire Update

The Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) continues in its efforts to fight a bushfire burning within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park and...

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