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 one air tanker comes in, another is on its way ... First thing next week, they say they'll be out fighting the fire that ...

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 ...

A deep blue sky stretches overhead as a plane christened "Tanker 60" gleams in the southern Oregon sun at the Medford Air Tanker Base, a hub for aircraft fighting wildfires along the West Coast.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...