Evacuations were ordered in Laws, a tiny Inyo County community just east of Bishop, and also in Chalfant in Mono County — as well as the White Mountain Estates neighborhood between the two. About 30 ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday afternoon was the official welcome for a new Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting building.

The death toll in the wildfires raging across South Korea's southeastern region rose to 24 and the pilot of a firefighting helicopter was killed when the aircraft crashed on Wednesday, as the country ...

The partnership marks a major step in Bridger’s (BAER) strategy to scale its firefighting capacity amid growing global demand and limited aircraft availability, the company said.

Regular aircraft, like a Boeing 747, were meant to carry passengers and cargo. If fire agencies use a Boeing 747, or a DC-10, it’s modified, loaded with retardant, flown as low as a thousand ...

and efficient amphibious water-scooping firefighting aircraft derived from an ATR 72-600. The partnership was officially unveiled today at the Aerial Fire Fighting Series: Europe Conference and ...

Airbus Backs Firefighting Startup Airbus has teamed up with French aircraft developer Hynaero to help the startup move forward with development of an amphibious firefighting aircraft. Hynaero ...

The fire jumped the highway and was threatening "multiple structures," Cal Fire BDU said in a post on X at about 4 p.m. "Aircraft, Heavy Equipement and additional engines requested." The blaze had ...

Tim Sheehy, a Republican representing Montana and the founder of multi-national aerial firefighting company Bridger Aerospace, is trying to end annual U.S. Forest Service inspections of aircraft ...