Aircraft that douse flames with water and bright red Phos-Chek fire retardant are a common sight in California. Aerial ...

CAL FIRE has the largest fleet of firefighting equipment of any civilian agency in the world. In all, it has 67 fixed-wing and rotary aircraft in its fleet, with plans to grow that number to 80 in the ...

The C-130 air tanker, which is able to carry up to 4,000 gallons of water or fire retardant, proved to be a valuable aerial attack resource during the initial stages ...

Since January 1, more than 101 wildfires have broken out across California. The state's fire department has deployed what is says is "the largest civil aerial firefighting fleet worldwide" to ...

For 30 years, the aircraft have been part of California's fire defenses. In a warming world, these types of cross-border deals will become more important.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire at an industrial plant in Russia's Volga region is under control, local authorities said on Saturday, days after the blaze, reportedly at an oil depot strategically ...

In order to reach remote fires in the State Responsibility Area, CAL FIRE maintains a fleet of firefighting aircraft, many of ...

Crews from Merced, Fresno, Clovis, Sanger, Tulare, Visalia, and other Central California communities are on the frontlines in Los Angeles, helping to fight one of the worst fire disasters the state ...

The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service ...

The change in fire department funding from 2023-24 stemmed from a one-time purchase of breathing equipment and fire suits ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian firefighters were on Thursday still battling a fire reported to have broken out at an oil depot near an air base for strategic bombers in the Volga region, more than 24 ...