Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.

The Los Angeles area has been hit with one of the worst fires in U.S. history. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, has more than 60 fixed-wing and rotor-wing ...

The Santa Maria Air Tanker Base has reopened to help host the air tankers and other aircraft being sent to aid in the ...

Lockheed Martin's C-130s have been sold to 65 countries. Other than the base C-130 transport, the KC-130 tanker is the 2nd ...

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 ...

Due to several recent wildfire activity across Southern California the past two weeks, the Santa Maria Air Tanker Base has ...

U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) equipped C-130J Super Hercules ...

The British defense secretary told Parliament that the Yantar, which he described as a Russian spy ship, had come near ...

Boeing delivered a total of 25 fighter jets along with tankers, martime patrol aircraft, and military helicopters.

At least 78 people have been killed in north-central Nigeria after a gasoline tanker exploded as dozens of people attempted to transfer fuel to another vehicle using a generator. The blast happened ...

An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic ...