Research and experiments on airdrops in France began with the first LABEX (LArgage Bombardier d’eau EXperimentation) experiment in 1995.

The U.S. government has filed two lawsuits against a utility company in California, blaming it for starting two deadly ...

The nation’s worst Labor Day wildfire tragedy occurred in Oregon in 2020, the deadliest wildfire event in state history.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s push to change a decade-old air pollution rule was recently advanced in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

The supply of chemicals for aerial fire suppression across the US has been locked in with the announcement by US Secretary of ...

The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index launched by the Canadian Forest Service in the 1960s is now adapted for use in numerous regions, including parts of Australia, Europe and Asia. The United ...

Suppression or control of wildfires with airtankers is a core strategy for most Canadian provincial and territorial wildfire management agencies. Airtankers include fixed wing and helicopter aircraft ...

The settlement addresses costs after three fires in southern California started by electrical equipment burned 378,000 acres in 2017 and 2018 destroying over 2,600 structures ...

Airtanker 417 dropping 8 door string drop along the right flank of a fire. Photo: Government of the Northwest Territories. There has been a small but growing body of research within the United States ...

More than 4100 people are attending Australasia’s largest fire and emergency management conference and exhibition in Perth, Western Australia, this week. The AFAC25 Conference Powered by Intershutz ...

Wildfires are here, and prisoners will be deployed to the frontlines to help fight these flames. They were on the 2025 L.A. Fires. Every summer, wildfires explode onto the scene and into the ...