The White House is considering an executive order that would overhaul standards for some wildland firefighting efforts, a ...

Watch a video of the fire, courtesy of Pamela Sue Richardson, in the player above.A wildfire is burning in Surry County, according to the North Carolina Forest Service.Sign up for our ...

After last month’s brush fires, state, county and local organizations began taking stock of the “new normal” in local forests and wooded areas. One point of consensus is the recognition of how both ...

At around $30 million, it's one of the most expensive aerial-firefighting aircraft ever made. Tim Sheehy: It's literally a boat with giant wings, and it's built like a tank. It looks like no other ...

A draft executive order would revamp wildland firefighting, pursuing a new federal agency and mandating 30-minute response times in high-risk areas. Advocates for the aerial firefighting business ...

The Senate passed a bipartisan bill Tuesday that would help expand the fleet of aircraft to fight the growing threat of ...

Right now, pilots can't fly at night or in heavy smoke, which limits firefighting efforts. "It's something that I've spent years talking to firefighters from different agencies about and it's just ...

At the command post for the Friars Fire in Mission Valley, San Diego Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Craig Newell showed Mayor Todd Gloria how the fire department mapped out evacuations for dozens of ...

Fighting wildfires takes a lot of manpower and a lot of firefighting equipment. The state brought in two super scooper planes to assist with the response. The firefighting planes are among only 15 ...

EDMOND, Okla. (KFOR) – Two aerial firefighting planes the Oklahoma Forestry Service called in from a company based in Montana lent a hand tackling a wildfire in Logan County on Monday.

“We have to have year-round preparedness baked into how we do things.” Efficiency of aerial firefighting Davis said each of Bridger Aerospace’s planes can fly for four hours on one tank ...

The United States Senate cleared the Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act, which reauthorizes the Defense Department to sell excess planes to be used as suppression tankers, as well as aircraft ...