Specialized aircraft are dropping massive amounts of water and colorful fire retardant to aid thousands of firefighters on the ground – and some fly breathtakingly low to do it. The water and ...

Specialized aircraft are dropping massive amounts of water and colorful fire retardant to aid thousands of firefighters on the ground – and some fly breathtakingly low to do it. The water and ...

American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...

A super scooper water-dropping firefighting aircraft refills with water from the Pacific Ocean at Will Rogers ... Helicopters, like the Bell UH-1H Super Huey, carry a bucket below the aircraft that ...

Cal Fire has 12 UH-1H Super Huey helicopters, which are being replaced by Sikorsky Fire Hawk helicopters. Large buckets, used to transport water, can be suspended below them and used to douse fire ...

Even Long’s political opponents praised his vision for the State of Louisiana, but they deplored his methods. Huey scoffed, “You sometimes fight fire with fire. The end justifies the means. I would do ...

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) reported Sunday that the recent grass fire in the mountainous area of Carasi, Ilocos Norte ...

The freeze comes at a critical time, when fire departments across the country would typically onboard thousands of seasonal federal firefighters in preparation for wildfires in the spring and summer.

The Black Hawk helicopter has been in service since 1979, but what makes it so special, that 36 countries use it? Here's everything you need to know.

A 20-year-old Bend man was arrested at a Redmond homeless shelter Wednesday afternoon, about 90 minutes after a customer was stabbed at a nearby 7-Eleven, police said.