Captain RK Smithley flies McDonnell Douglas DC-10 fire bombers for New Mexico-based 10Tanker. Smithley dropped red fire retardant over the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles. Mountainous terrain ...

Helicopters are generally dropping water to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are designed to carry fire retardant, which is designed to ...

which houses nuclear-capable bombers. Several Russian independent and state-linked sources on Telegram reported a large fire at an oil depot close to the base.

A Quebec water bomber fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles has been grounded after it collided with a drone flying in restricted airspace, officials said. The collision left the CL-415 ...

Watch as our aircraft and crew deliver a precision water drop on the Palisades Fire in California. This is teamwork in action ... expanding with two more water bombers heading to California ...