Reduced visibility from thick smoke, coupled with turbulence created by the fire's heat, can create perilous flying conditions.

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 we do it.

A drone hit the wing of a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper plane fighting the LA fires. Cal Fire only has one other Quebec 1 aircraft in its arsenal.

A drone that authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9 put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper ...

The Los Angeles fires first started on January 7, 2025, as a result of strong winds. According to NBC, the first area to be impacted was Pacific Palisades, a neighborhood of Los Angeles just east of ...

Photos released by the agency showed that the drone put a large hole in the aircraft’s wing ... firefighters’ efforts to suppress this fire and actually get it contained,” Davis ...

Fire crews are days into a challenging battle against a firestorm in Los Angeles, and one of the critical tools in the fight has been the effort from above. Enter the CL-415 Super Scooper — one ...

During the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, a man used a drone to take aerial photographs and put a fire-fighting aircraft out of action. Now he has to pay. In California, a man has pleaded ...

Aerial support during the California wildfires has been grounded at times by high winds. Here's what the aircrafts do and why they can't fly in certain conditions.

The special fire fighting planes are retrofitted with large tanks to skim across large bodies of water to scoop it up before dropping it across swaths of fire. The “Quebec 1” was being used with ...

A man who was piloting a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft working on ... fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water onto a fire. The collision knocked the plane out ...