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

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

A California National Guard pilot describes how flyers perform a firefighting mission in the battle against Los Angeles’ ...

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

These agencies operate a large fleet of aircraft — including fixed-wing planes and helicopters — that work in tandem to contain even the most destructive of wildfires. These planes and ...

The Pentagon sent C-130 MAFFS-equipped aircraft to fight the LA fires. The water bombers drop nearly 14 tons of fire ...

John Mixson, a retired U.S. Coast Guard helicopter search and rescue aircraft commander, explains the obstacles air crews ...

Linnea Edmeier, aviation communications officer at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), said ...

The helicopters, known as the MH-60S Seahawk, are operated by several squadrons at the San Diego base and are being prepared ...