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Crews Work Year Round to Keep Firefighting Planes Ready to Fly

January 25, 2025

Aerial Firefighting APAC 2023 – A Dubbo Success Story

August 8, 2023

When looking through the previous locations of the Tangent Link Aerial Firefighting series of conferences with names like Athens, Greece, Nimes, France, Sacramento, California...

Wildfire Season Forecast to be ‘Normal,’ But Unknowns Linger

May 26, 2023

Montana is forecast to have normal wildfire risk this summer amid above-average temperatures and about normal precipitation, with little change to current drought conditions. The...

Veteran Aerial Firefighter Passes Away

May 22, 2023

(Captain) Gary Stephen Harney of Cody passed away peacefully May 6, 2023, following a valiant battle with ALS. Gary was born Aug. 6, 1952, in...

Aerial Firefighting 2023 Pacific Northwest Show Round Up

May 1, 2023

The aerial firefighting industry descended on the Pacific Northwest for this year's installment of the Tangent Link-run Aerial Firefighting North American Conference held this...

Bill Would Make it a Crime to Fly Drones Over Wildfires

March 20, 2023

People who fly the drones over wildland fires could soon face criminal penalties under a bill gaining traction at the Legislature. Unauthorized drone flights over...

Bridger Aerospace and Jack Creek Announce Closing of Business Combination

January 25, 2023

BOZEMAN, Mont. and NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2023 Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, LLC (“Bridger” or “Bridger Aerospace”), a leading independent provider of aerial firefighting...

Airbus Successfully Tests Firefighting Kit on A400M

July 26, 2022

Getafe, 26 July 2022 –Airbus has successfully tested a removable firefighting demonstrator kit on the A400M new generation airlifter during a flight test campaign in Spain. The test...

Rotak Releases Statement on CH-47 Crash, Confirms Names of Pilots Lost

July 22, 2022

Anchorage, Alaska - Rotak Helicopter Services released a statement today on yesterday's crash of one of the company's two CH-47 Chinook helicopters during firefighting...

CAL FIRE Completes First Night Aerial Firefighting Mission With S-70i on Electra Fire

July 8, 2022

As ongoing efforts continue to extinguish the Electra Fire in Amador County which lies to the South East of the state capital of Sacramento,...

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