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Retrofitted C-130 cargo plane can fly farther, faster and carry more fire retardant than other Cal Fire aircraft ...
Another airplane flight, another scare -- this time with fire and thick smoke pouring out of a plane engine ... thankfully, ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Cal Fire officials announced the latest addition to the agency’s ability to fight fires from the sky.
The number of drops a plane can make varies greatly from fire ... and size — has been equipped with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, or MAFFS. On the ground, a small army of people ...
The Table Rock Fire is the first time South Carolina has ever used a Very Large Airtanker. See what airplanes are fighting fires ... are on the scene. This plane can hold between 2,000 to 4,000 ...
The plane was traveling from Iowa ... Firefighters were on the scene fighting a major fire at the crash site and at least one home caught fire, according to ABC affiliate KTSP.
Local governments announced an agreement Tuesday to allow wildfire-fighting planes to rely on the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport hydrant system this season. The intergovernmental agreement was nearly two ...
Passengers have been forced to evacuate a Delta plane after an engine caught fire ... Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting team promptly responded," the airport said in a post on social media.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Delta Air Lines plane carrying ... media post that the fire occurred on the ramp area and that the airport's aircraft rescue and fire fighting team promptly responded.