The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense. The MAFFS system can be installed inside C ...

As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas, public water systems are often unable to meet the firefighting demand ...

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...

One expert says solutions will require “political will, significant financing, likely decades of time and stronger, and perhaps unpopular, regulations.” ...

As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas such as Boulder, Colorado and Lahaina, Hawaii, public water systems are often unable to meet the demand of fighting these large fires.

Jaw-dropping scenes show the view from inside the cockpit of an airplane fighting the devastating Californian wildfires. A California Air National Guard (CA ANG) MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire ...

The planes can “discharge their entire load of up to 3,000 gallons of retardant in less than five seconds, covering an area one-quarter of a mile long by 100 feet wide, or they can make variable drops ...

Help in fighting the recent Los Angeles fires came from many corners, and the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District was part ...

While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large blazes currently ravaging the Los Angeles area.