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.

Helping in that fight is Albuquerque-based 10 Tanker. Its fleet consists of four DC-10 tanker planes that can each hold and drop a massive 9,500 gallons of fire ... run the largest air tankers ...

NASCAR driver Garrett Smithley is cheering on his dad who is fighting the flames from the sky. Flying a DC-10 Air Tanker, Capt. RK Smithley is took multiple flights dropping fire retardant over ...

U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting ... lands at a tanker base ...

Mountainous terrain, winds, busy air ... largest tool in the Forest Service's arsenal because we're the biggest tanker out here. January is an odd time for wildfires in California This fire ...

Mountainous terrain, winds, busy air traffic ... re doing — we're the largest tool in the Forest Service's arsenal because we're the biggest tanker out here. This fire is unprecedented.

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Captain RK Smithley flies McDonnell Douglas DC-10 fire bombers for New Mexico-based 10Tanker. Smithley dropped red fire retardant over the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles. Mountainous terrain ...