NASCAR Driver Garrett Smithley’s Dad Fighting California Wildfires Piloting DC-10 Air Tanker
As the fires rage in California, NASCAR driver Garrett Smithley is cheering on his dad who is fighting the flames from the ...
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‘It’s a Nightmare’: DC 10 Pilot Describes Battling Calif. Wildfires
Capt. RK Smithley has helped drop over 175,000 gallons of fire retardant during more than a dozen flights in two ...
Inside the Aerial Fire Response in Los Angeles County
Federal firefighters are working alongside state and local crews as hundreds of U.S. Forest Service personnel are on the frontlines ...
Inside the Dramatic Air Attack That Saved Brentwood and Encino From the Surging Palisades Fire
On Friday afternoon, the winds across the Santa Monica Mountains suddenly shifted, and the Palisades fire pushed north and east, ...
Bridger Aerospace Confirms the Mobilization of Super Scooper Aircraft to California to Assist in Firefighting Efforts
BELGRADE, Mont., Jan. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, Inc. (“Bridger” or “Bridger Aerospace”), (NASDAQ: BAER, BAERW), ...
Aerial Firefighters Descend on Los Angeles Amid ‘Extremely Challenging’ Conditions
Aerial firefighting companies have rushed aircraft to Southern California to battle a wind-whipped inferno that has burned neighbourhoods to the ...
USNORTHCOM Activates Eight C-130 Aircraft In Response to LA Wildfires
PETERSON SFB, Colo. – U.S. Northern Command has activated eight C-130 aircraft equipped with Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems (MAFFS) ...
Horseshoe Fire Burns Through the Night in California
Firefighters with aerial support worked to contain the Horseshoe wildfire that grew to about 200 acres in the hills above ...
The Pilots Who Fight California’s Wildfires
There are days here when you walk outside and just know. Step on a stick and it snaps. Grass crunches ...
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