Just 3 weeks after being added to the Cal Fire fleet, a converted military air tanker has taken to the skies on more than a ...

Since then, Cal Fire has spent $6.5 million apiece retrofitting each plane. The first was put into service Monday at the McClellan Airforce Base in Sacramento County. Over the next several months ...

Now ready for deployment out of the McClellan Airtanker Base, the 155,000-pound ... reported a passerby recorded the plane’s wings snap off. In Cal Fire’s huge undertaking to customize the ...

A Cal Fire plane drops retardant on a vegetation fire burning on a hill along southbound Highway 101 near Hawk Hill Lane at the base of the Cuesta Grade in San Luis Obispo on Sept. 3, 2024.

The 155,000 pound aircraft is capable of flying 800 miles is the fastest plane in the CAL FIRE fleet covering the ... into service at McClellan Airtanker Base outside of Sacramento earlier this ...

Cal Fire crews retrofitted the huge plane — whose 133-foot wingspan is ... The one unveiled Monday will be based at McClellan ...

The plane crash killed the pilot ... on a trip to bring parts to the airport, which hosts a Cal Fire Kneeland Helitack Base.

He was also going low and slow, simultaneously reducing the plane’s maneuverability while ... Dan Anderson, an instructor pilot for Cal Fire, spent decades in the Army and flew medevac ...

Sacramento, CA — Making its first drop near McClellan Airtanker Base outside of Sacramento on Monday, CAL Fire officially activated ... Californians.” The plane was first utilized by the ...

The NFL season just got underway and already the Super Bowl is in the spotlight — just not the game itself. Pulitzer ...