A significant Cal Fire construction project at the Ramona Air Attack Base to accommodate a new air tanker will begin next week. According to a news release issued Sunday, the agency stated the project ...

Tucked behind Durango-La Plata County Airport lies the Durango Airtanker base – a hot swath of asphalt that for the past several weeks was home to three very special airplanes. The three repurposed ...

Cal Fire’s Air Attack Base in Ramona is getting a much-needed $12 million upgrade to handle larger air tankers. KPBS North County reporter Alexander Nguyen reports the improvements will also allow ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An air tanker fighting a wildfire near Yosemite National Park in Northern California crashed Tuesday, but there was no immediate word on the condition of the pilot, who was ...

A "significant" Cal Fire construction project at the Ramona Air Attack Base, being designed to accommodate a new air tanker, will begin next week. According to a news release issued Sunday, the agency ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - As wildfire season intensifies across Western Colorado, firefighting aircraft are once again becoming a critical line of defense. At the Grand Junction Air Center, ...

BIG COUNTRY, Texas — The Texas A&M Forest Service has raised the Wildland Fire Preparedness Level to Level 2. As a way to prepare, the forest service has four single-engine air tankers (SEAT) ...

A haze of smoke from Border Fire 18 covers the landscape on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of CalFire San Diego via Alert California) A brush fire burned dozens of acres Saturday south of Dulzura in the ...

Firefighters need all the help they can get and every minute counts when faced with a catastrophe like the Palisades and Eaton fires that caused mass devastation in January. Los Angeles County Fire ...

RAMONA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Cal Fire San Diego will soon begin a construction project at its Ramona Air Attack Base to prepare it for the arrival of a new air tanker. Crews will demolish and ...