Firefighting planes are front-line combatants when a wildfire breaks out. They come in a wide variety of sizes, and their ...

A brush fire that erupted Wednesday just northeast of Lake Elsinore scorched nearly 30 acres before it was stopped. The non-injury Toro Fire was reported at 4:25 p.m. Wednesday in the area of El Toro ...

State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant outlines how Cal Fire is preparing for the peak of California’s increasingly long and ...

With the official start of summer fire season just days away, Cal Fire personnel on Wednesday trained with aircraft at the agency’s Sonoma Air Attack Base at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County ...

This is a big deal,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, noting California has the largest civilian aerial firefighting fleet in ...

The nation’s airports have also played an integral role in aerial firefighting, according to the report. More than 200 ...

a C130H aircraft. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) Cal Fire, California’s lead state firefighting agency, on Thursday April 24, 2025 unveiled a new C-130 tanker plane, shown here in April at ...

Authorities set a "go" status for South Fork and North Woods communities on May 13, 2025, after a fire started on private land and quickly spread.

The plane, a 1984 model acquired from the U.S. Coast Guard, is a type of aircraft used by the military ... Boeing 737 — to carry 4,000 gallons of fire retardant, more than triple the capacity of the ...

The latest C-130 Hercules air tanker will join the CAL FIRE ... “Adding a second C-130 aircraft to California’s aerial firefighting force today is a truly remarkable advancement in our state ...