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U.S. Senators Question Retardant Testing in Letter to Under Secretary Wilkes

August 6, 2024

Help Us, Help You: A Call for Collaboration in Aerial Firefighting

March 1, 2024

Commitment and Responsibility As aerial firefighting operators, we understand the immense weight of responsibility we carry. Every flight tests our mettle, pushing us to the...

Executive Profile – Jennifer Draughon

March 1, 2024

In December 2023, AerialFire spoke to Jennifer Draughon, President of Neptune Aviation in Montana to find out how she went from a career in accounting to...

Snow and El Niño: Decoding the US 2024 Fire Season with Insights from TracPlus

March 1, 2024

AerialFire takes another look at trends around the world that are affecting the fire outlook in part two of our series written by Todd...

Perimeter Solutions Hires Forest Service, NASF Veteran Jim Karels as Agency Liaison

February 1, 2024

Perimeter Solutions announced on January 31st that it has hired Jim Karels as its new Agency Liaison. Karels succeeds Ron Raley, who served as...

Airbus Upgrades A400M Firefighter Prototype Kit

December 5, 2023

Getafe, Spain - 5 December 2023 – Airbus Defence and Space has conducted a new flight-test campaign of the A400M Roll-on/Roll-off firefighting prototype kit, dropping 20,000...

Australian Transport Safety Bureau Releases Preliminary 737 Crash Report

May 5, 2023

A Boeing 737 firebombing aircraft which crashed in Western Australia's south earlier this year hit a ridge line while dropping retardant, a preliminary investigation has revealed. The Large Air...

Editorial: Banning Retardants Will Cost Lives

May 1, 2023

Many of our readers have likely read from recent news coverage that federal agencies charged with providing aerial firefighting resources are now having to...

Science, 80+ Years of Research Prove Effectiveness of Phosphate-Based Fire Retardants for Fire Retardant

March 1, 2023

By Melissa Kim, Vice President of Research & Development, Perimeter Solutions Modern firefighting via aerial attack was first attempted in the 1920s when containers of water...

BLM Expected to Expand Operations in New Mexico

February 23, 2023

The Roswell Air Center Airport, located in New Mexico, also houses a U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) aerial firefighting base on the east...

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