Aerial Fire News

FEMA Grant Helps NFPA Bolster Public Drone Safety

The NFPA has received nearly $1 million dollars from FEMA to develop a free public safety drone compliance program that includes educational training. The National Fire...

Greece Sends Aerial Firefighting Assistance to Lebanon

Greece sent two Canadair CL-415 amphibious firefighting aircraft to Lebanon on Tuesday, to help with the efforts to contain the forest fires burning near...

Airbus Helicopters Delivers Two H125s to Austrian Ministry of Interior

Austria’s Ministry of the Interior (BMI) has formally introduced into service two Airbus H125 helicopters extensively equipped for law enforcement and rescue missions. The aircraft...

As Kincade Fire Grows, Global SuperTanker Heads to Sacramento

As the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County continues to advance, growing to over 25,000 acres in size overnight, the Global SuperTanker, a Boeing 747...

U.S. Aerial Firefighting Activity Down Say American Aerial Firefighting Body

The US aerial firefighting industry has experienced one of its slowest fire seasons to date with significant reductions in flight-hours compared to recent years....

Rural Australian Fire Grows as Aerial Firefighting Effort Continues

FIREFIGHTERS have shared a video from the Goonoo Forest bushfire that is yet to brought under control. Dozens of firefighters have been at the 264...

Tick Fire Re-Ignites, Aerial Firefighting Assets Return

A wind-driven brush fire forced thousands of residents in the Santa Clarita Valley to evacuate Thursday, leaving many wondering whether they had a house...

Los Angeles Fire Department Plans To Increase Its Drone Fleet

The Los Angeles Fire Department is looking to increase its fleet of drones significantly to help bolster firefighting efforts around the city. Battalion Chief Richard Fields, head...

SANParks Completes Controlled Burn in Garden Route Park

SANParks has completed a controlled burn of more than 20ha of fynbos east of Kurland in the Tsitsikamma as part of its programme to...

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