Cal Fire had ... 1,200-gallon heavy air tanker’s coverage length, in feet. It is illegal for any unauthorized manned or unmanned aircraft to enter the zone set around a fire.

A C-130J Super Hercules over the Hughes Fire on Jan. 22, 2025. (California Air National Guard/TMX) Once a load is discharged from a MAFFS-equipped aircraft, and the aircraft lands at a tanker base ...

The Santa Maria Air Tanker Base has reopened to help host the air tankers and other aircraft being sent to aid in the Southern California wildfires. "We have 4 water scooping aircraft that can ...

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The DC-10 is one of dozens of aircraft assisting in fighting the California wildfires near ... to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are ...

Marine Corps and Air Force until the 1990s. Cal Fire’s fleet of tankers then drops fire retardant onto the terrain below. The Grumman S-2T tanker, with its two turboprop engines, is the agency ...

known as Cal Fire, says it has the largest fleet of aerial firefighting equipment of any civilian agency in the world. Two planes important to aerial firefighting missions are air tankers ...

You know, some of these winds are just too much that you just can’t fight fire from the air. So these fires are definitely unique,” said Joel Kerley, the president and CEO of 10 Tanker.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As wildfires continue to burn in California ... color of the containment lines from the air, according to 10 Tanker. While the fire retardant doesn’t totally put out ...