Changing weather patterns mean burning forests present an ever-bigger threat to communities around the world. What new ...

According to Becker, D-Menlo Park, California has been making large investments toward wildfire prevention and management by increasing budgets for Cal Fire ... with dozens of FireHawk helicopters ...

the state has increased its budget for Cal Fire to $4 billion annually and doubled its firefighting force to 12,000 people, he said. California also has built the largest civil aerial firefighting ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A helicopter with a mechanical problem landed on a South Side golf course Monday night, Chicago Fire Department officials said. CFD said in a post on X just before 6:30 p.m. that ...

SACRAMENTO — The California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, known as Cal Fire, released its new fire hazard maps on Monday, including for Sacramento, detailing which areas have the ...

“The state-run group (DFPC) that works on fire protection initiatives let us know that the helicopter they purchased, which is called a Firehawk, that was bound to be housed at Montrose, was no longer ...

WASHINGTON -- Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.'s airport on the same route where a passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided in midair, killing 67 ...

Cal Fire officials hope other local reservations will be interested in doing similar projects. (Cal Fire San Diego) Cal Fire and Barona officials said it was a prescribed burn and a cultural fire.

The Black Hawk is a family of utility helicopters made by Sikorsky, a company owned by Lockheed Martin. One of the mainstays of the U.S. Army, it is extensively used by the U.S. military as a ...

"Fire can travel through that a lot faster, and it produces a lot of heat that sometimes we can be close to," said Fresno County CAL FIRE spokesman, Gary Couch. Grass is fuel to flames. Couch said ...

Authorities have identified the suspected killer of a Riverside County Cal Fire captain who was stabbed to death in Ramona on Monday, and it appears this is the second time this person killed her ...