Firefighters with the Kern County Fire Department extinguished a vehicle fire that nearly spread to fuel tanker Wednesday ...

The aircraft can hold about 4,500 liters (1,200 gallons) of fire retardant that it can drop in the path of fires. The planes are smaller than many air tankers and can be used in fast initial ...

The C-130 air tanker, which is able to carry up to 4,000 gallons of water or fire retardant, proved to be a valuable aerial attack resource during the initial stages ...

Air tankers and chemical fire retardants have been used since the 1950s, allowing firefighters to reach difficult spots. The U.S. Forest Service says retardants are used to "slow the rate of ...

Fire hydrants do not generally have the capacity to be used in large-scale firefighting ... the city including the three 1 million-gallon tanks in the Palisades area. We also fueled all our ...

“He had a propane tank, or a… it was a big ... trying to light something on fire,” she continued. The suspect claimed that he used a blowtorch “to smoke marujuana” because he “couldn ...

The C-130 air tanker, which can carry up to 4,000 gallons of fire retardant, was used by CAL FIRE during the initial stages of the initial stages of the Palisades ...

The Alexandria Bay Fire Department is auctioning off a historic vehicle. For the past 7 or so years, a 1940 Dodge fire engine ...

LOS ANGELES − The death toll from a devastating series of fires in Los Angeles County rose to 16, officials announced, as air crews used fire ... An air tanker drops fire retardant at the ...

Uruguay’s former guerilla-turned-president, Jose Mujica, announced on Thursday that the cancer in his esophagus had spread to ...

For more than 30 years, Australasian Transport News (ATN) and its digital platform Fully Loaded have been the leading source of intelligence for owners and managers of medium to large transport ...

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. - A tanker truck fire has shut down both northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 75 in Henry County.