Specialized aircraft deliver strategic water drops and retardant lines to contain flames in California’s challenging ...

It is common practice in California to paint military helicopters with fluorescent "shocking pink" paint to make them more visible amid the smoke from wildfires.

Firefighters in California are battling the fires from the sky using a variety of specialized aircraft that dump water and fire retardant onto the terrain below.

CH-47 Chinook helicopters are also widely deployed in firefighting efforts.

In California, the battle against destructive wildfires continues. Amphibious aircraft, helicopters, and specialized planes ...

Smaller helicopters carrying anywhere between 100 to 400 gallons of water have buckets that simply scoop water from the water source using helicopter firefighting buckets. These buckets usually ...

Four of the helicopters have monsoon buckets while the fifth directs from the air. Earlier today one of the four helicopter’s monsoon buckets caught on fire while attempting to fight the blaze.

Navy helicopters from Naval Airstation North Island ... which is perfect for holding water buckets. The squadrons operating them routinely train during the year with the buckets, he said, making ...

Four of the helicopters have monsoon buckets while the fifth directs from the air. Earlier today one of the four helicopter’s monsoon buckets caught on fire while attempting to fight the blaze.

Navy helicopters from Naval Airstation North Island will join other fire-fighting helicopters in the skies over Southern California, officials at the Pentagon announced on Wednesday, Jan. 8. “We’re ...

The strap is brown with yellow-gold dashes across it. “Bambi” is in the center in yellow-gold script. One pouch has beige stripes. Contrasting silhouettes of Bambi are on the stripes. It has a ...