Reduced visibility from thick smoke, coupled with turbulence created by the fire's heat, can create perilous flying conditions.

Specifically designed for dousing forest fires, the CL-415 aircraft can scoop water, mix it with foam if needed and then spray it on the blaze. NEW: FBI has launched an investigation to find the ...

The aircraft, which is designed to scoop water from bodies of water and drop it on fires, was able to land safely and was taken out of service for approximately five days for repairs, prosecutors ...

LOS ANGELES -- Federal charges were announced against a Culver City, California, man on Friday in connection with a civilian drone that hit and damaged a water ... of two Super Scoopers available.

On the morning of Jan. 7, as thick black smoke billowed over the Pacific Palisades, newsrooms across the city mobilized without a key piece of news-gathering equipment.

Through an integrated rotating scooper apparatus in the case of Canadair's design, flying boat water bombers can scoop and drop thousands of gallons of water with only a limited fuel load being ...

The pilot of a drone that crashed into a firefighting plane, leaving a gaping hole and grounding the aircraft during the ...