The CL-415 aircraft being used in California can drop large amounts of water on fires and fills its tank by skimming along a body of water without having to land.

Among the other types that have been sent in to help fight the spread of fire are: helitankers, military helicopters with under-slung buckets, waterscoopers (amphibious planes), Large Air Tankers ...

The air tanker is a retrofitted C-130 plane that Cal Fire obtained from the U.S. Coast Guard. Cal Fire will be converting six additional planes to be used as air tankers to aid their firefighting ...

As fire crews and air tankers work to block the wildfires' explosive growth, images of red clouds of fire retardant falling onto trees are common. What is it — and what's in it?

Just 3 weeks after being added to the Cal Fire fleet, a converted military air tanker has taken to the skies on more than a dozen fires throughout the state, officials said. The retrofitted C-130 ...

Cal Fire provided a preview of its C-130H air tanker at McClellan Air Field, a craft capable of dropping 4,000 gallons of retardant in a single flight.

Source: Warren County Fire Department System.WARREN COUNTY, Ky. – Last week, Warren County Fiscal Court and judge-executive Doug Gorman unveiled three new water tankers for the county’s fire ...