Equipped with airborne fire-fighting systems, C-130 Super Hercules planes are flying missions over the wildfires in Southern California that started earlier this month. California Air National Guard ...

Fire crews in Los Angeles County said the main thing impacting their efforts to extinguish blazes has been a lack of water.

A video shows the cockpit view of California Air National Guard pilots flying low and dropping fire retardant over the Hughes Fire in Los Angeles County.

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 ...

The latest NIST study provides more information about exposure risk for firefighters from their firefighting protective gear.

Billings Flight Service helps fight major fires at home and overseas --- including the ongoing California wildfires. The ...

Specialized aircraft deliver strategic water drops and retardant lines to contain flames in California’s challenging ...

You’ve seen buildings and homes with fire sprinklers inside… but what about on the roof? “It does save homes,” said Harry Statter of Frontline Wildfire Defense, a company ...

Tech. Sgt. Timothy Lopez, whose family is from Oahu, is part of a team keeping military aircraft ready to support ongoing ...

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

Private firefighters are increasingly popular with inusurers. But some argue it creates a two-tiered system where only the ...

The question of who is in charge is testimony to the diffusion and, at times, dysfunction that make up the core DNA of the ...