Quebec said Friday it will send two more firefighting aircraft to California, a day after one of the province’s water bombers collided with a drone while battling the wildfires ravaging the Los ...
Specialized aircraft are dropping massive amounts of water and colorful fire retardant to aid thousands of firefighters on the ground – and some fly breathtakingly low to do it. The water and ...
From cargo plane to firefighting aircraft The Lockheed C-130 Hercules ... The MAFFS units can be filled with water or a fire retardant called "slurry," which is mostly made of water with the ...