A drone that authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9 put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper ...

I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

As such, MAFFS comes with its own trailer and does not require structural modifications to the aircraft it's designed for.

Carrying massive loads of water or fire retardant, fast-moving specialized aircraft help contain the spread of wildfires.

During the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, a man used a drone to take aerial photographs and put a fire-fighting aircraft ...

The U.S. Northern Command activated eight of its C-130 aircraft ... Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and ...

U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard ...

The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 aircraft come from the 146th Airlift ... began in 1971 as a joint effort between the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense ...

is considered extremely cost-effective in fighting wildfires, according to Business Insider. Cal Fire doesn’t own any Super Scoopers. Instead, it has been leasing two of the aircraft from the ...