A specialized Canadian firefighting plane responding to the wildfires in Southern California was grounded Thursday after it ...

A Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded after it hit a drone flying ...

A Federal Aviation Administration investigation was continuing Friday into a drone strike that damaged a water-dropping Super Scooper aircraft over Palisades Fire, putting it out of service during a ...

If a drone is in the air, then all firefighting aerial operations shut down. That's just one of the many warnings officials hope people take to heart.

One of the two Super Scooper airplanes on loan from Canada is out of service for the weekend. The water tanker requires ...

The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service ...

Cal Fire will receive two more CL-415 Super Scoopers from a Canadian non-profit to replace the one damaged Thursday by a ...

The deadly Los Angeles wildfires turned neighborhoods into ash as officials ordered 150,000 people to evacuate their homes.

Ocean water can be used in extreme cases to fight wildfires, but freshwater is preferred due to equipment corrosion, soil ...

Despite some progress, the biggest blazes — the Palisades and Eaton fires — rage largely uncontained as anxious residents ...

The fires have burned more than 10,000 homes and other structures since Tuesday, when they first began popping up around a ...

Drones and other aircraft not helping with firefighting efforts are prohibited in temporary flight restriction zones around ...