When a blaze fuelled by hurricane-force winds broke out in the Palisades on 7 January, Cal Fire joined an unprecedented ...

Tanker 47 rears up as helicopter pilot Darren Davies settles it to hover over the Encino Reservoir, a half-mile-wide ...

Helicopters play a critical role in CAL FIRE’s operations, and the future of the fleet is the Sikorsky S-70i Firehawk (or as ...

Researchers and startup founders are rushing to develop and deploy drones, sensors and satellite imagery analysis that they ...

A Chinook helicopter makes a water ... After years of research and millions in new equipment, it began nighttime firefighting in Australia in 2016 and in California in 2020. Other operators ...

A video filmed from a fire-fighting helicopter dumping water on a fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles ...

Pacific Gas and Electric says their 240 person mutual-assistance effort is in support of customers of Southern California ...

Cal Fire’s fleet of ... Command and control planes orbit the fire above 2,500 feet. They fly in a clockwise direction so they can better see the tankers and helicopters on the fire.

Ten crews from Montana, including from Columbus and Red Lodge, are staged halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles on ...

A video of Mexican helicopters from a 2018 military exercise has been miscaptioned online as showing the arrival of ...

Easing winds delivered a brief but much-needed reprieve to firefighters Tuesday as they battled two massive blazes burning in ...