KERNVILLE, Calif. (KERO) — For the past few years, the genders of those on the team have been close to evenly split, a rarity in wildland firefighting units. The Kernville Helitack is a team ...

CLE ELUM - Laden with chain saws, hand tools, radios, food, water and emergency fire shelters, the crews scrambled aboard the helicopters. Within minutes, they were flying over the ridge to the ...

CalFire’s Vina Helitack sits as a sentinel watching over the valley and ready to respond to any emergency call it receives – be it wildfires, medical calls or vegetation and structure fires. Reopen ...

A Helitack crew member prepares to jump while hovering over nine feet of brush during training near Pozo on July 17, 1967. The firefighters trained to clear a spot for reinforcements to arrive. Jim ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says the airport fire, sparked Sunday, would have been a far worse result had it not been for the helicopter operated by the county itself.

BOISE, Idaho - Two elite "helitack" firefighters were killed in the Idaho wilderness when the fire they were trying to quell flared unexpectedly and overran their position in the Salmon-Challis ...

Fairbanks-area firefighter units continue to mop up a five-acre brush fire Friday that was reported Thursday just before 4 p.m. in the woods near Chena Landing Loop across from the Best Western Plus.

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Douglas County simulated a fire on Wednesday as part of their training for helicopter firefighting. Douglas County has committed more than $1.8 million to the county’s ...

BOISE, Idaho — Two elite ‘‘helitack'' firefighters were killed in the Idaho wilderness when the fire they were trying to quell flared unexpectedly and overran their position in the Salmon-Challis ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Two elite ''helitack" firefighters were killed in the Idaho wilderness when the fire they were trying to quell flared unexpectedly and overran their position in the Salmon-Challis ...

Alex MacLean Feb 2, 2023 Feb 2, 2023 Updated Feb 3, 2023 The U.S. Forest Service is asking the public’s help to solve a string of thefts at ranger district offices in the Stanislaus National Forest ...

Douglas County fire crews experienced a busy weekend as a heat wave warmed the Denver metro area. The agency's fire suppression helicopter responded to several calls, including a destructive brush ...