Britain has assigned two Royal Air Force fleets a new domestic mission without saying how much operational capacity it will ...

France has deployed the newly-developed firefighting kit aboard the A400M to support the assets suppressing the fires in the country’s southwest. The Airbus A400M conducted its first firefighting ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With wildfire danger peaking, California’s fleet of 22 air tankers was cleared Friday to return to the skies after investigators found no evidence that a fatal crash of one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cal Fire is ramping up preparations for the upcoming summer wildfire season, deploying aircraft, staffing crews, and urging ...

Game Aerospace has completed the first flight of its GB2, a new single-engine airtanker designed specifically for aerial firefighting. The prototype departed Louise Thaden Field in Bentonville, ...

After a second record-breaking year of wildfires, MPs says the UK needs to get its act together before next spring, calling ...

In the summer of 2021, five "Fire Boss" airplanes skimmed the surface of a lake. They belonged to aerial firefighting company Dauntless Air, and they were helping fight a wildfire in Washington state.

PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) - Europe's largest aerial emergency services firm Avincis is warning Europe is not ready for longer and more extreme wildfire seasons, with the company's chief executive ...

In what was fast becoming a grim rite of summer, wildfires sprang up at hot spots nationwide, and some of the government's over-the-hill air tankers went down fighting them. Nearly two weeks after the ...

The San Bernardino County Fire Protection District (SBCoFD) today announced a contract with Seneca, a resilience technology ...

PORTSMOUTH -- PlaneSense tested its emergency fire extinguishing system at its hangar in Portsmouth on Tuesday morning. The 40,000-square-foot hangar was filled with non-toxic foam designed to smother ...