The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office will venture into firefighting duties this summer after purchasing a water bucket that attaches to one of its search...
Mock battles are taking place in the skies above Redding this week as aerial firefighters practice for the looming fire season.
The training is taking...
Earplugs were surely needed Wednesday morning because of the loud planes used to protect the Northstate during wildfires.
Ahead of fire season, CAL FIRE and...
When Neptune Aviation Services planned to replace its legacy fleet of piston-driven Lockheed P2V Neptunes with BAe 146 regional jets, reconfigured as air tankers,...
After a two-year hiatus from hosting the aerial firefighting show in the United States, Tangent Link’s Aerial Fire Fighting North America returned to San...
A dozen experienced seasonal firefighters gathered Monday at Columbia Air Attack Base to learn and relearn basics about Cal Fire’s new Copter 404, the...
As wildland summer fire seasons extend into autumn, and the fires, themselves, become increasingly destructive and widespread, aerial tankers must be ready to fly...