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

“They’re a really good asset when a fire is starting to get beyond that ... An additional six plane skimmer group is also available for the season. “We have increased capacity all around ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wildfire started in the Somis area on Wednesday morning and tore through 22 square miles by the evening, destroying dozens of homes, sending residents to the hospital and forcing evacuations in ...

The Knoxville Fire Department announced that crews were at the scene of a fire on the Knoxville College campus around 8:30 p.m. Photos from the scene showed a heavily-involved fire impacting ...

Tomorrow’s tankers might just be today’s tankers with self-protection gear, Air Force officials say—because the service can’t afford to pursue all its next-generation plans. The Air Force ...

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.