This thing is an absolute unit. Over 11 feet tall. Runs on tracks instead of wheels. Up front? A 16-foot-wide blade that clears 30 feet of brush in two passes. Its turbocharged 14.6-liter six-cylinder ...

A journalist from California is caught in the wildfires in Patagonia, Argentina, at the same time L.A. faces the same ...

Two large air tankers from New South Wales have arrived in Tasmania to bolster firefighting efforts on the West Coast. The ...

The IRST Block II enhances ‘situational awareness by supplementing air-to-air detection and track capabilities, and ...

Abilene Regional Airport's new ramp will help to prepare not only Texas' wildfire response, but surrounding state's as well.

The next generation of high-performance CPUs and GPUs targeting the demanding needs of AI and HPC will generate a significant ...

A resident and two township fire chiefs had concerns and questions about a plastics manufacturer township officials are ...

The tankers loop from the fire to the air base, where aircraft like the S-2T tanker can be refilled on the ground within minutes. Cal Fire also has seven new airtankers that were put into service ...

MAFFS, or Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems, transforms a military transport into an aerial firefighter. In an interview with Simple Flying, David Sarnoff, the Executive Director for the MAFFS ...

According to Cal Fire, "Numerous firefighting air tankers from throughout the State are flying fire suppression missions as conditions allow." CAL FIRE Incident Management Team 2 has transitioned ...

Equipped with the MAFFS II system, Leonardo’s C-27J Spartan NG emerges as a versatile multi-mission platform which can ...

More than 2,600 firefighters, along with helicopters and air tankers, battled the Border 2 fire near the U.S.-Mexico border Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on ...