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Work Begins to Install New Aerial Firefighting Assets to Help Protect one of Australia’s Major Forests

October 24, 2024

GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND: Two Iconic Families Unite to Establish Australia’s First National Aerial Firefighting Service

November 9, 2020

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – November 4, 2020: Two iconic families have come together to solve one of Australia’s most urgent problems. The Fox and Coulson...

Large Air Tanker deployed to Lowmead fire

October 12, 2020

The Large Air Tanker based at Bundaberg Airport was deployed for the first time in an operational capacity to help fire fighters battle a...

‘Showstoppers’: Emails reveal barriers to flying firefighters in Black Hawks

October 12, 2020

The NSW Rural Fire Service faces an uphill battle to get two Black Hawk helicopters to fly firefighters to remote areas because it is...

Lake Ohau, Waitaki fire: At least 20 homes destroyed in South Island blaze, residents evacuated

October 5, 2020

Eleven helicopters and seven ground crews are battling a huge Canterbury fire that has damaged or destroyed at least 20 homes and forced hundreds...

How California deploys aircraft to battle wildfires

October 5, 2020

California is battling one of the largest fires in its history. In total, about 1.3 million ha have been burned. The California Department of Forestry and...

Kestrel Aviation – Innovating to Keep Australians Safe

September 18, 2020

Beginning operations in 1985, many would be surprised to know that Kestrel Aviation began not an aerial firefighting company, but as a training provider....

Federal Government rejected aerial fire fighting requests ahead of bushfires ‘due to other priorities’

August 18, 2020

The Federal Government rejected repeated requests to fund extra air support for fighting bushfires ahead of the last deadly season, arguing resources within the...

Chinese Firm Tests World’s Largest Operational Flying Boat

July 31, 2020

This week, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) completed the first sea-based flight test for the AG600 "Kunlong," the world's largest currently-operating flying...

Wildfires Hit Siberian Nature Reserve

July 27, 2020

Wildfires which have scorched parts of Siberia this summer on the back of a prolonged heatwave wave spreasd to a remote Russian nature reserve...

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