So far this wildfire season, aerial firefighting activities have faced the persistent nuisance of 21 “public drone incursions,” the National Interagency Fire Center reported. In 10 of those events, ...

The tender process for the purchase of three firefighting aircraft is currently under way, with one of the aircraft to be ...

The UH-60A Blackhawk began life as a weapon of war. Capable of carting 4 tonnes of ordinance at speeds of up to 278 kilometres per hour, this formidable multi-role helicopter was envisioned as a ...

Aircraft are one of the most important tools for fighting wildfires, and across the various agencies and private companies that use firefighting aircraft, you'll find an entire arsenal of airborne ...

Several countries were sending firefighting aircraft to Israel on Thursday as crews battled for a second day to extinguish a wildfire that had shut down a major highway linking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem ...

Hailed at its inception as a joint public-private partnership between the county fire agencies of Los Angeles, Ventura and ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US According to fire officials, the plane hit a ...

On the third day of battling the flames, the major incident status was de-escalated at about lunchtime on Sunday. Firefighters moved to working on extinguishing hotspots. The Northern Ireland Fire and ...

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing 14 people and injuring around ...

FIRE crews are scaling down their battle with fires raging on moorland moorland north of Bolton where a major incident has been declared after two large wildfires merged. Around 150 firefirghters and ...