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Colorado Springs Airport to be Home to Regional Firefighting Base

The Colorado Springs Airport and U.S. Forest Service will spend $17 million to build a regional firefighting base at the airport that will allow...

Babcock Receives Approved Maintenance Organization Certification From Transport Canada

Babcock announced February 4th that it has received Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) certification from Transport Canada. The AMO certificate verifies that Babcock has met the...

Elbit Systems Solution to Allow Planes to Fight Fires 24/7

Since the 1950s, aerial firefighting has been conducted using liquid cascade drop methods, which require firefighting sorties at low altitudes. Although effective, these methods are restricted to...

World’s Top Aerial Firefighting Agencies Equipping FIREHAWK Fleets With Collins Aerospace’s Goodrich Rescue Hoist

ANAHEIM, Calif., Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), today announced that three of the world's top aerial firefighting...

Rescued Koalas Named After American Firefighters Who Died Fighting Australia’s Wildfires

Three koalas rescued during Australia's wildfire crisis have been named for American firefighters who were tragically killed in the region last week. The animals were named by...

3-D Aerial Maps Help Australian Fire Ground Recovery

Adelaide-based Airborne Research Australia is creating free 3D high resolution maps of devastation caused by fires in the Adelaide Hills and Kangaroo Island to...

Bushfires are ‘Australia’s war’ and that means we need a battle plan

As a blaze tore through from the Orroral Valley, troops were ready to evacuate my 88-year-old father from his nursing home. It was the...

“It’s a Worldwide Problem”: How North American and Australian Firefighters Work Together

In December, Jeff Austin, an air-attack officer with the British Columbia Wildfire Service who has spent forty-one years on the fire line, was at...

Charlie Wiplinger Named CEO of Wipaire

South St. Paul, Minnesota, January 2020 – Wipaire announces Bob “Wip” Wiplinger has entered semi-retirement and his son, Charlie Wiplinger, is taking the helm...

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