Equipped with the MAFFS II system, Leonardo’s C-27J Spartan NG emerges as a versatile multi-mission platform which can deliver precision water/fire ...

Aerial firefighting has become an essential part of wildfire suppression strategies, offering the speed, precision, and ...

As wildfires continue to burn in California, the Albuquerque-based 10 Tanker is still hard at work helping ground crews with ...

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 System) equipped C-130J Super Hercules ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has updated the number of fatalities as a result of a fuel tanker explosion at Dikko Junction in Niger State to 98, while 69 others secured ...

I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

We work as a team with the tanker base, with the mechanics who keep us ... but also because we're fighting fire while wedged into tight air space between the LAX, Van Nuys, Burbank, and Santa Monica ...

Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Images Tanker ... fire, which was whipped into existence by the hurricane-force Santa Ana winds that made flying such missions impossible. The air rushing ...

Two planes important to aerial firefighting missions are air tankers, which carry and drop the fire retardant, and the lead plane, a smaller, more nimble aircraft that flies ahead. The lead plane ...

You know, some of these winds are just too much that you just can’t fight fire from the air. So these fires are definitely unique,” said Joel Kerley, the president and CEO of 10 Tanker.

Dozens of Missoulians are fighting ... air with the goal of limiting additional damage to neighborhoods that have lost thousands of homes. Firefighters from the city of Missoula, Missoula Rural ...

A massive California Air National Guard tanker dives into ... That’s life for the roughly 100 fire pilots fighting the hot, dirty and dangerous battle to save Los Angeles from this week ...