A significant Cal Fire construction project at the Ramona Air Attack Base to accommodate a new air tanker will begin next ...

The Medford Air Tanker base, which is providing aerial resources to multiple incidents around our region, said it’s always a ...

Cal Fire provided a preview of its C-130H air tanker at ... of 15 bases sanctioned to accommodate air tankers. ... with the U.S. Forest Service went down fighting the Cannon Fire in ...

Behind every one of those drops is a team working around the clock to mix, load, and send aircraft back into the fight,” BLM ...

The tanker base is also home to four retardant fueling pits, which are also now all open and ready to reload aircraft as quickly as possible. "We have three pits on this side," said Sexton.

Cal Fire's air tanker base at McClellan running around the clock. ... First thing next week, they say they'll be out fighting the fire that is threatening their home base.

"You need help from the air, whether it's helicopters dropping water, air tankers dropping fire retardant," said Joel Kerley, president of 10 Tanker.

U.S. Northern Command has activated military cargo planes equipped to drop retardant as an intensifying peak wildfire season ...

The U.S. Northern Command activated eight of its C-130 aircraft equipped with MAFFS (Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems) on Jan. 10, 2025 to help fight the raging fires in the Los Angeles area ...

We're the biggest tanker fighting the California wildfires. ... How many flights we can wedge in between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. depends on how far the fire is from the base, ...