DENVER — Western Colorado’s skies are unusually busy this week, as dozens of firefighting aircraft work to slow the spread of multiple large wildfires. Flight path data shows a dense network of ...
Hailed at its inception as a joint public-private partnership between the county fire agencies of Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange County and SoCal Edison, the Quick Reaction Force (QRF) program has ...
The Los Angeles County Fire Department has placed an order with Sikorsky for two additional S-70i Firehawk firefighting helicopters. In a year that brutally demonstrated the threat that wildfires pose ...
KILLEEN, Texas — When wildfires threaten Texas communities, help arrives from the sky at 400 miles per hour. The Texas A&M Forest Service has stationed specialized air tankers at Killeen Regional ...
The arrival of six fire bombing planes has bolstered Tasmania’s firefighting capabilities, with the extra aircraft ready for emergency action for the rest of the bushfire season.
A dispute over a Trump administration plan to consolidate federal firefighting operations may be close to resolution, in a sign of modest progress toward Senate passage of a major fiscal 2026 spending ...