Aerial Fire News

The California FAIR Plan Association Enters New Partnership with Zesty.ai to Levere Aerial Imagery and Artificial Intelligence

Zesty.ai and the California FAIR Plan Association (FAIR Plan) announced today that the FAIR Plan has selected Z-FIRE as its wildfire risk solution to better understand wildfire...

Cedar Butte Fire grows to 60 acres

The Cedar Butte Fire, burning west of Highway 6 near Cedar Butte Road in the Tillamook State Forest, is now estimated to be 60...

Australian water bombers en route from Perth to Athens

Four Australian water-bombing helicopters and seven crew are due to touch down in Greece on Saturday after jetting from Wellcamp Airport to Perth on...

B.C.-based Coulson Aviation hits milestones with firefighting in U.S.

One of Coulson Aviation’s CH-47D Chinook aerial firefighting helicopters was spotted at the Alberni Valley Regional Airport this week. The Chinook was conducting a test...

Greece to Modernize Aerial Firefighting Fleet After Record Fire Season

Greece announced a plan this week to spend 1.7 billion euros on modernizing the country's aerial firefighting capabilities in a parliamentary session where Prime...

Air Support Ready to Target White Rock Lake Wildfire in Naswhito Creek

Smoke is visible from the Naswhito Creek area on the southeast flank of the out-of-control White Rock Lake wildfire burning at an estimated 56,500...

Large Air Tanker Due to Touch Down This Month

A Large Air Tanker (LAT) will soon arrive in Bundaberg, just in time for the next bushfire season. The LAT will remain in Australia for...

Fighting Wildfires with Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting

The United States (U.S.) is on fire… literally. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, this calendar year the nation has experienced 39,955 wildfires, two...

Russian Beriev BE-200 Aircraft Crashes in Turkey

A Russian Navy Beriev Be-200 (RF-88450) amphibious water bomber crashed into high terrain in Turkey on August 14th near Kahramanmaras, about 34 miles northwest...

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