If you are badly injured in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, the rescue may include dangling from a fixed line attached to the Mesa Verde Helitack helicopter. Short-haul operations are a ...

Douglas County will start construction this year to build a Helitack hangar to serve as a home for the county's firefighting ...

The US Forest Service approved the addition of a local helitack team to the Forest Service short-haul programs in the Pike ...

KERNVILLE, Calif. (KERO) — For the past few years, the genders of those on the team have been close to evenly split, a rarity in wildland firefighting units. The Kernville Helitack is a team ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says the airport fire, sparked Sunday, would have been a far worse result had it not been for the helicopter operated by the county itself.

In the past week, fire killed two helitack firefighters, and a helicopter crash killed the pilot and another helitack firefighter. Another helicopter pilot died in a separate crash. The mission of ...

(TNS) - Demi Garcia is 21 and a new member of the state’s elite helitack firefighting team, so new she was still awaiting her first real action Wednesday as she and team members participated in their ...

CLE ELUM - Laden with chain saws, hand tools, radios, food, water and emergency fire shelters, the crews scrambled aboard the helicopters. Within minutes, they were flying over the ridge to the ...

CalFire’s Vina Helitack sits as a sentinel watching over the valley and ready to respond to any emergency call it receives – be it wildfires, medical calls or vegetation and structure fires. Reopen ...