We put fire hydrants every 600 feet all around cities,” said Mark Whaling. “But when it comes to the helicopters, we weren’t ...

A retired L.A. County fire captain knows firsthand what it’s like to wait on a helicopter to refill on water while he's ...

USA TODAY rented the helicopter to allow a reporter and ... to see the most severe active fire in Los Angeles County. But Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR) prevented us from getting anywhere ...

It was published online in Oct. 2019, opens new tab by the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Air Operations Section and described as showing a Firehawk helicopter dropping water on a fire in ...

John Mixson, a retired U.S. Coast Guard helicopter search and rescue aircraft ... s budget by $17 million. On Thursday, LA County Fire Department Chief Anthony Marrone announced that the growth ...

A former Army pilot. An aging helicopter. Furious winds. The race to put out the Eaton fire tested Los Angeles County’s night-flying firefighters like never before. A former Army pilot.

During a new process aimed at increasing the county’s fiscal transparency, Los Angeles ... our planes or helicopters,” he said. “For the first 14 hours of the Eaton fire, we couldn’t ...

San Diego County wants to buy a second firefighting helicopter equipped ... one of the largest fire protection districts in ...

Mark Whaling and a crew raced up and down a hill in a tanker truck as they battled a wildfire in Los Angeles ... helicopter flew in to drop water, but it had to fly a long distance to refill - and ...

(K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune) San Diego County wants to buy a second firefighting helicopter ... fire protection districts in the state. He also said that, after the Los Angeles ...

CABAZON — Mark Whaling and a crew raced up and down a hill in a tanker truck as they battled a wildfire in Los Angeles County ... since retired from the county fire department.