Different types of retardant are available in a variety of price points, but the high-end kind used in this particular home, says McDonald, is biodegradable and nontoxic—"you could drink it straight ...
Hoke’s C-130 — a model nicknamed “Hercules” for its impressive strength and size — has been equipped with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, or MAFFS. On the ground, a small army of people preps ...
The Senate Transportation and Energy Committee will review a newly introduced bill that proposes the use of artificial ...
A California Air National Guard (CA ANG) MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) equipped C-130J Super Hercules ...
As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas, public water systems are often unable to meet the firefighting demand ...
While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large ...
A video shows the cockpit view of California Air National Guard pilots flying low and dropping fire retardant over the Hughes ...
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 ...