The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fix Our Forests Act in January and has yet to have any motion in the Senate. The ...

The crash of the two on-duty contracted Cal Fire helicopters, a Sikorsky S-64E Skycrane and a Bell 407 – a derivative of a ...

Research and experiments on airdrops in France began with the first LABEX (LArgage Bombardier d’eau EXperimentation) ...

The United States Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture announced the establishment of the U.S.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s push to change a decade-old air pollution rule was recently advanced in ...

Join us in Florida for the 2026 International Smoke Symposium. We are now open to proposals for talks, workshops or other special sessions that meet the needs of global experts and practitioners at ...

A partial history of fires in Northwest California and Southwest Oregon, 2000 through Sept 17, 2020. The Northwest California/Southwest Oregon area has kept firefighters very busy at times during the ...

Suppression or control of wildfires with airtankers is a core strategy for most Canadian provincial and territorial wildfire management agencies. Airtankers include fixed wing and helicopter aircraft ...

Airtanker 417 dropping 8 door string drop along the right flank of a fire. Photo: Government of the Northwest Territories. There has been a small but growing body of research within the United States ...