A Cal Fire representative said the aircraft was needed as a statewide resource “as we continue to see the increase in fire ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The plane crash killed the pilot ... on a trip to bring parts to the airport, which hosts a Cal Fire Kneeland Helitack Base. The NTSB report, which includes factual information only and does ...

Units were dispatched around 2 p.m. Saturday to reports of a fire at Case Springs Road in the Zulu Impact Area of the base, according to Cal Fire. "Cal Fire is an assisting agency, but we have ...

Seven C-130s will join CAL FIRE's fleet in the future. The first of those seven is now based at McClellan Airtanker Base near Sacramento, CA. Eventually, one of the airtankers will be stationed at ...

A former U.S. Coast Guard plane, it is one of seven that Cal Fire is supposed to eventually receive. The agency announced that it first used the plane — Tanker 122 — on Sunday to fight the ...

No containment has been reported. The Line Fire in San Bernardino has scorched 36,481 acres, according to Cal Fire. Containment remained at 18%. Authorities hosted a meeting in Crestline at 7 p.m ...

A wildfire that sparked in Tahoe National Forest on Monday afternoon has grown to more than 1,000 acres and is prompting evacuations in the area, according to Cal Fire. A brush fire sparked in ...