An air tanker took several passes over a smoldering hillside in Los Angeles County on Friday afternoon and dropped red fire ...

In the skies above Los Angeles, air tankers and helicopters silhouetted by the setting California sun dart in and out of ...

A firefighting aircraft responding to ongoing Southern California wildfires was grounded after it was struck and damaged by a ...

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

A Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded after it hit a drone flying ...

The Federal Aviation Administration​ confirmed the agency is investigating the incident, which left the plane with a damaged ...

Cal Fire has its own fleet of aircraft operating from 14 airfields and 11 helicopter bases across the state that can reach most fires within about 20 minutes.

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

Water experts dismissed Trump’s claims that California water policy is to blame for dry hydrants. But Los Angeles is also ...

Wildfires are tearing through thousands of acres in Los Angeles County in California, as strong Santa Ana winds stoke the ...

With hundreds of firefighters working the front lines of the Palisades fire, tanker planes can be seen scooping ocean water ...

Bernalillo, San Juan and Los Alamos Counties, as well as the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, will be deployed to Southern ...