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 ...

As we move into the peak of the fire season over the next three or four months, we wanted to see if looking back over the ...

and at the Sonoma Air Attack Base, crews are ready to make more of it and deploy at a moment's notice. Battalion Chief Jake Serrano has been with Cal Fire for 31 years, much of that time has been ...

A vegetation fire broke out near Santa Margarita Lake on Friday afternoon. According to emergency services app Watch Duty, at ...

Cal Fire had more than 60 aircraft within its firefighting ... David Hudson has been an air attack group supervisor since 2017 and is based at Hemet-Ryan Airport’s air attack base, which deploys ...

Cal Fire provided a preview of its C-130H air tanker at McClellan Air Field ... play a crucial role in helping us achieve our initial attack goals, particularly in our efforts to keep 95% of ...

The next 24 hours became an all-out attack of air resources ... a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection focused on aviation. “Even though we were ready ...

In that county, Chico will be home to another C-130H air tanker ... our initial attack goals, particularly in our efforts to keep 95% of fires at 10 acres or less,” Cal Fire Chief Joe ...