Late last month, San Diego County leaders and fire officials celebrated a vote to add a much-needed, nighttime firefighting helicopter to the county’s fleet. Firefighting agencies in the county have ...

The contract between Orange County Fire Authority, Southern California Edison and several other local fire departments that provided valuable firefighting helicopters to the area has expired, despite ...

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 ...

Kawak Aviation Technologies Inc. has entered a new chapter of growth following the appointment of Steven Sawyer as President at Kawak Aviation Technologies Inc. in March 2025, positioning the Bend, ...

The Los Angeles County Fire Department has placed an order with Sikorsky for two additional S-70i Firehawk firefighting helicopters. In a year that brutally demonstrated the threat that wildfires pose ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Four pilots with the Kern County Fire Department are expected to receive training through June of 2026 to fly the department’s new Firehawk helicopters, according to the ...

An internal report commissioned by the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) details a series of concerns and operational problems with the state's Helitack Program, which recently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If a massive wildfire were to spark in Orange County, will there now be less of a firefight from the air? That's the question 7 On ...

Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior has become the first export operator of Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KUH-1 Surion twin-engine medium helicopter. Two helicopters—specialist forestry service ...

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