There are different contract tankers that fight fires ... but also because we're fighting fire while wedged into tight air space between the LAX, Van Nuys, Burbank, and Santa Monica airports.

U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting ... lands at a tanker base ...

There are different contract tankers that fight fires ... but also because we're fighting fire while wedged into tight air space between the LAX, Van Nuys, Burbank, and Santa Monica airports.

As out-of-control wildfires threatened thousands of Los Angeles residents earlier this month, the companies that fight infernos from the air raced to send their air tankers and water bombers to ...

A dramatic video takes viewers inside the cockpit of a California Air National ... aircraft lands at a tanker base, it can be refilled in less than 12 minutes." The Hughes Fire has now burned ...

Too old for the truck but too stubborn to stop, these veteran CFA volunteers are giving water bombers what they need to fight ...

A Motorsports Hall of Famer and multiple world-speed record holder is helping quell the devastating wildfires burning in the foothills of Los Angeles, California — one air tanker drop at a time.

In the skies above Los Angeles, air tankers and helicopters silhouetted by the setting California sun dart in and out of giant wildfire plumes, dropping much-needed flame retardant and precious ...

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

The Santa Maria Air Tanker Base has reopened to help host the ... for ground resources to get on scene and engage vegetation fire. Now when there's winds in excess of 40 to 80 mph, its very ...

Two large air tankers from New South Wales have arrived in Tasmania to bolster firefighting efforts on the West Coast. The ...

We're the biggest tanker fighting the California wildfires ... dropping water to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are designed to carry ...