CHICO — PJ Helicopters’ UH-60 Blackhawk was the shining centerpiece at the Chico Airport on Thursday and Cal Fire-Butte County and PG&E joined together to formally announce that the helicopter would ...

Late last month, San Diego County leaders and fire officials celebrated a vote to add a much-needed, nighttime firefighting helicopter to the county’s fleet. Firefighting agencies in the county have ...

Carrying a 1,000-gallon water tank, the CAL FIRE Hawk can attack wildfires at night when cooler temperatures and lighter winds make operations ideal. The new CAL FIRE Hawk firefighting helicopter.

The Sheriff’s Department has unveiled its first night-flying firefighting helicopter. The delivery of the $15.7 million aircraft marks a huge leap forward. As of now, only San Diego Fire-Rescue flies ...

Autonomous systems, and in particular unmanned vehicles, are taking on more complex tasks and missions whether they be in the air, on land or at sea. But the announcement by Sikorsky and Rain.aero ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diego is spending $21 million on a new firefighting helicopter needed to return the city’s aerial firefighting capability back to recommended levels. City officials announced ...

A San Diego Fire-Rescue helicopter makes a drop over the Tijuana River Valley fire Sunday. Photo credit: OnScene.TV The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a pair of fire-safety measures ...

Power was briefly knocked for nearly 20,000 people along the Wasatch Front on Tuesday morning.The 58-year-old man identified as victim in Sugar House homicide investigation Investigators have ...

MTH Pumps, which makes its products in a non-descript metal building in Plano, may not sound like that cool of a company. But the aerial firefighting helicopter refill pump that’s produced there has ...

Washington (CNN) — A firefighting helicopter crew’s decision to fly an altitude higher than they were cleared for and the subsequent rapid descent led to the deaths of three people in a midair ...

All the talk about Lake Tahoe needing a firefighting helicopter is amusing me. As the discussions in various editorials and letters indicate, getting resources to fires is paramount to successful ...

Turning the Blackhawk into a firefighting helicopter means installing a large 1,100 gallon belly tank beneath the vehicle that is attached to an accordion hose and pump for filling up at water sources ...