Air Tankers

One of the world’s biggest firefighting aircraft is based in Colorado Springs. But it's fighting fires in California right now, rather than in the...

Update 10:10 a.m. : The fire has grown to 6,559 acres Friday. Fire managers say they made some progress with fire lines Thursday. The blaze is 5 percent…

Wildland firefighters throughout the West had a difficult summer last year. Hotter and drier weather than usual - along with forests full of dead trees -…

The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise has released aviation figures for the 2012 fire season. The numbers show that about half of the calls for…

Wildfires around Idaho kept air tanker bases around the state busy. Airplanes dropped more than a million gallons of fire retardant on fires this year.The…

As wildfires continue to burn here in the West, the US Forest Service is going to battle this summer with fewer air tankers. The number of planes that…