In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, to test new drone-based technology for localized ...

Even as I urged them to leave, from my home in the Mojave Desert, I was moved by a different compulsion: to get in my car, report to work and rush, via fire engine or helicopter, toward the fires. It ...

The County of San Diego will be acquiring a twin-engine firefighting helicopter. On Jan. 28, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0, with one vacant seat, to authorize the director of the ...

U.S. wildland firefighter efforts may soon be consolidated under a new bill introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Tim ...

The Alaska Conservation Foundation invited former President Jimmy Carter to Anchorage for the 25th Anniversary Celebration of ...

Crews helped battle the deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires, and now some worry a shortfall will weaken response capabilities ...

By Steve Wilent, The Mountain Times It’s painful to see that so many homes and businesses were burned by wildfires in the Los Angeles area in January. People killed — 27, so far — and injured. Lives, ...

The wind-driven fires quickly grew beyond the capacity of the Los Angeles crews on hand — here, the county has 16 fire ...

The military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight over Washington, DC, was flying nearly twice as high as it should have been — but the Black Hawk was not equipped with a ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday announced it would restrict helicopter routes in the Washington region following a deadly collision this week between an Army Black Hawk and a ...

Three Army soldiers, one pilot and two crew members, were killed when their helicopter crashed into a passenger airplane near Washington were practicing a plan to evacuate senior leaders in the ...

Three Ka-32 helicopters and one Mi-26 have been deployed to combat a large fire in northwest Moscow, where a building allegedly housing an unauthorized hostel is engulfed in flames, covering an ...