Cal Fire’s aerial firefighting fleet comprises more than 60 Grumman S-2Ts, Bell UH-1H Super Hueys, Sikorsky S70i’s, North ...

CAL FIRE IS PREPARING its aerial units and crews for rapid deployments as wildfire season is expected to ramp up over the ...

All three helicopters will be stationed at helitack bases across the North Bay for the summer, ready to respond anywhere in ...

At Cal Fire’s Rohnerville Air Attack Base on June 16, Humboldt Del Norte Unit Chief Kurt McCray said, “We’re here today to ...

Source: Cal Fire August 3, 2022 (San Diego) - Effective Monday August 1, 2022 the CAL FIRE San Diego Unit will have an exclusive use Type 1 helicopter available for response (N795HT).

A blaze caused by an unauthorized cooking fire within Natural Bridges State Beach on a warm and windy Thursday afternoon was quickly contained by the Santa Cruz Fire Department in coordination with ...

Cal Fire's Kneeland Helitack base's brand new $22 Million Sikorsky S-70i Fire Hawk Helicopter was shown off in Fortuna at 1 p.m., June 16, 2025. (KAEF) ...

Sikorsky does not specifically say how the tests went, other than the fact that they "demonstrated and tested autonomous wildfire suppression techniques on both propane and burning brush piles ...

Representatives from CAL FIRE, San Bernardino County Fire District, Orange County Fire Authority and the U.S. Fire Service were there to witness portions of the tests. During one series of water drops ...

Ian Abbott / Flickr CAL FIRE operates a sizable fleet of 23 Grumman S-2Ts, which originally served with the US Navy between 1958 and 1975. Back then they were called the S-2E/G, and were carrier-based ...

As Los Angeles residents fled an insatiable inferno in Pacific Palisades last week, aerial firefighter Diego Calderoni was plunging towards the flames at about 170 mph (275 kph) in a DC-10 jet.

The latter type of aircraft can carry 1,200 gallons, while the former has the capacity for 4,000. Cal Fire is home to Sikorsky S70i Cal Fire Hawk and Bell UH-1H Super Huey helicopters as well.