This outnumbers SDFD’s other choppers which can hold ... tools that our exceptionally skilled and highly trained Air Operations crews can use for the benefit of everyone in our region.” ...

SAN DIEGO — The first-ever pilot hired by San Diego Fire-Rescue in 2005 is now a US Citizen after a naturalization ceremony. Chris Hartnell, Fire-Rescue Helicopter Pilot for San Diego Fire ...

A brush fire that spread in a rural area east of San Diego Zoo Safari Park, blackening 49 acres, was roughly 90% contained ...

SDFD Deputy Chief Robert Logan II ... he served as the Deputy Fire Chief of Special Operations, which includes air operations, the Metro Arson Strike Team and Hazardous Incident Response Team ...

SDFD officials stated, “The exercise will simulate two small planes colliding mid-air over Mission Bay, with one aircraft falling into the bay and another landing off the coast of Mission Beach.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A mass rescue operations exercise will take place ... to an exercise simulating two planes colliding mid-air over Mission Bay, city officials said Tuesday.

Stowell previously oversaw SDFD’s emergency operations division. He also spent time as the department’s wellness officer, and he was in charge of training for medical services and special ...

SDFD units arrived around 12:10 p.m. to 4950 North Harbor Dr. after receiving initial reports of a fire coming from the marina. The department assigned 37 personnel to this incident, along with 4 ...

As of 5:30 p.m., ground crews and personnel aboard an air tanker and three water-dropping helicopters had halted the spread of the fire at an estimated 19 acres, according to SDFD public affairs.