A drone that authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9 put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper ...

The Forest Service, which has used 13 aircraft to dump suppressants on the Los Angeles fires, says they help starve a fire of oxygen and slow the rate of burn by cooling and coating vegetation and ...

A fleet of firefighting aircraft sits at the Santa Maria Public Airport where the state's extreme fire weather has led to an ...

The US Forest Service is fighting to keep in place a plan to raze the equivalent of 500 Central Parks in California’s forests ...

While some Angelenos cast around for someone to blame, a whole cooperative emergency-response system whirred to life.

During the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, a man used a drone to take aerial photographs and put a fire-fighting aircraft ...

Aerial firefighters have always been a critical line of defense against raging wildfires. But increasingly extreme blazes and ...

Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.

Acquired from the US Army, CAL FIRE uses three Beechcraft King Air 200s as aerial supervisory modules. Although it’s known for its capabilities in low-level flight, and used by the Forest Service as a ...