“The air tanker delivery of retardant certainly doesn’t put fires out, but what it does is it buys time to firefighters on the ground to get in and actually do their work,” said Rau. More ...
S COTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Air tankers and helicopters helped douse flames from the sky as nearly 200 firefighters on the ground battled a wildfire northeast of Phoenix on Friday that threatened ...
Much of October was a smoky existence along the Wasatch Back while the largest wildfire of the year in Utah burned 33,000 acres of national forest laced with beetle-killed timber east of Frances ...
Following a historic wildfire season, the Oregon State Fire Marshal is expanding a defensible space program to help more Oregonians pay for wildfire prevention projects on their property.