Firefighting planes are front-line combatants when a wildfire breaks out. They come in a wide variety of sizes, and their capacity is equally varied.

Aircraft made hundreds of trips to a local reservoir, filling tanks to fight the Sandy Fire. Here's who pays for the water.

MACON, Ga. — During the wildfires in areas of Georgia over the past few weeks, you may have seen planes dropping large amounts of water on them. What are those? Those planes are the Georgia Forestry ...

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government is adding four new amphibious aircraft to its firefighting fleet after last year’s forest fire season was one of the worst in decades.

Hailed at its inception as a joint public-private partnership between the county fire agencies of Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange County and SoCal Edison, the Quick Reaction Force (QRF) program has ...

Firefighting agencies across Canada have 10 new aircraft they can use as the 2026 wildfire season gets underway.

FORT POLK, La. — The Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department held Aircraft Live Fire training Feb. 26-27. The training is an annual event held to refresh aircraft firefighting skills. In ...