“USFS, has deployed five large air tankers, 10 firefighting helicopters and has dozens of fire engines deployed ... terrain and night flying. Each model provides distinct advantages in speed ...

An unauthorized drone collided with an air tanker battling the Palisades Fire on January 9, 2025, tearing a hole in the tanker's wing and rendering it inoperable to fight the fires. The collision ...

Due to recent wildfire activity across Southern California the past two weeks, the Santa Maria Air Tanker Base has been ... due to the unprecedented extreme fire weather that has helped fuel ...

Helicopters are generally dropping water to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are designed to carry fire retardant, which is designed to ...

He flies a DC-10 Air Tanker. He helped to drop more than 175,000 gallons of fire retardant during more than a dozen flights over the fires from 9 a.m. until dark Friday and Saturday.

Two planes important to aerial firefighting missions are air tankers, which carry and drop the fire retardant, and the lead plane, a smaller, more nimble aircraft that flies ahead. The lead plane ...

Interviews with pilots paint a graphic picture of the struggle to maintain control of their ships amid one of the most ...

More than 2,600 firefighters, along with helicopters and air tankers, battled the Border 2 fire near the U.S.-Mexico border Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on ...