Two large air tankers from New South Wales have arrived in Tasmania to bolster firefighting efforts on the West Coast. The ...

Aerial firefighting has become an essential part of wildfire suppression strategies, offering the speed, precision, and ...

Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.

I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

This chart shows a 1,200-gallon heavy air tanker’s coverage length, in feet. It is illegal for any unauthorized manned or unmanned aircraft to enter the zone set around a fire. Media choppers ...

multi-mission aircraft that served with the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force until the 1990s. Cal Fire’s fleet of tankers then drops fire retardant onto the terrain below. The Grumman S-2T ...

Equipped with the MAFFS II system, Leonardo's C-27J Spartan NG emerges as a versatile multi-mission platform which can ...

This chart shows a 1,200-gallon heavy air tanker’s coverage length, in feet. It is illegal for any unauthorized manned or unmanned aircraft to enter the zone set around a fire. Media choppers ...

Aerial support during the California wildfires has been grounded at times by high winds. Here's what the aircrafts do and why they can't fly in certain conditions.

The people flying planes and tankers involved in dousing blazes face hot, sweaty, turbulent conditions — and the risk that fire retardant won’t land where it’s needed. By Yan Zhuang ...