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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(NewsNation) — Ten Navy helicopters have been dispatched to Los Angeles County as part of the federal ... Management Agency has also approved a fire management grant, which will reimburse ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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.