CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Tim Stepanovich breaks down the air operations being conducted across Northern California to combat widespread wildfires. CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Tim Stepanovich breaks ...

with another scheduled for Cal Fire’s Ramona air base in San Diego County this summer, and the rest expected to arrive in 2026 and 2027 at Cal Fire bases in Chico, Paso Robles and McClellan.

and cultural and heritage resources," Cal Fire's San Bernardino Unit posted on X Monday. "Fire activity intensified overnight, with significant runs driven by wind and terrain alignment. Air and ...

Cal Fire presented the North Bay Business Journal an early look at its second of seven C-130 air tankers being retrofitted to drop fire retardant before it’s deployed to Fresno. The C-130 that ...

The latest C-130 Hercules air tanker will join the CAL FIRE aerial fleet, the second former U.S. Coast Guard cargo plane to be retrofitted for firefighting purposes. “Adding a second C-130 ...

The plane can drop nearly four times as much fire retardant as other Cal Fire air craft. The federal government has plans to donate five other surplus C-130s to California in the coming years.

Efforts to battle the 1,250-acre fire in eastern California were complicated by strong winds, which were expected to continue through Monday. By Amanda Holpuch A wildfire in eastern California ...

“We plan to have the third air tanker available in the middle of the fire year; late summer this year." Tyler said Cal Fire plans to continue retrofitting the remaining planes that will be ...

DAVIS — Wildfires scorched more than a million acres in California last year, and the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) says the state faces a growing threat of large ...