Cal Fire has its own fleet of aircraft operating from 14 airfields and 11 helicopter bases across the state that can reach most fires within about 20 minutes.
The Scooper plane, Quebec 1, was hit by the civilian drone while over Los Angeles around 1 p.m. Thursday, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Erik Scott wrote on X. The plane landed safely ...
PHOTO: Firefighting aircraft damaged after colliding with drone over the Palisades ... According to The War Zone, there are only two of these amphibious turboprop aircraft capable of handling such ...
According to Reuters, most of Cal Fire’s tactical planes are North American Rockwell OV-10 twin-turboprop, multi-mission aircraft that served with the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force until ...