Minimum safe drop heights are in development for large firefighting aircraft in Australia, to address safety issues ...

s (UAC) Modular Aerial Fire Fighting System (MAFFS ... “[The 737-700] is the large air tanker of the future,” Coulson notes. “When you look at an aircraft like a 737, there’s so much ...

On July 24, the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade, holding the line outside the town of Kurakhivka in eastern Ukraine, ...

The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau says minimum safe drop limits should be rolled out nationally in a bid to avoid a ...

and the owner of that company came up with the idea of taking one of the older DC-10s that we had and turning it into a fire tanker airplane," Maxey said. The planes have three tanks on the bottom ...

fire crews were alerted to assist the Refton Fire Company with fighting a “wind-driven fire” on Scheller Road in Providence Township. An engine had to set up a water supply to fill tankers, and the ...

"A fire broke out on the Annika tanker on Friday morning," the Central ... Video published by Bild daily online had earlier showed a fire-fighting vessel aiming a powerful jet of water at the ...

Photo by DGzRS / AFP Berlin: A fire broke out aboard a small oil tanker off Germany on Friday ... Photo by DGzRS / AFP Emergency service vessels were fighting the fire and more rescue crew ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Fire crews battled a woods fire in Providence Township, Lancaster County Friday afternoon. According to a Facebook post from Quarryville Fire Company, at 1:28 pm ...

Units say they fought the seven-acre fire for around four hours, and an engine filled tankers with 46,000 gallons of water from a pond on Sawmill Road. No injuries have been reported at this time ...

The average acreage burned per year in Montana is 470,000 acres. This was the fourth year in a row with fire activity below ...

A tanker driver, motor boy and one other person sustained varying degrees of injuries when a petrol-laden tanker caught fire along the Ijebu-Ode area of the Sagamu-Benin Expressway on Thursday.