I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

As an epilogue, Omega Air continues to refuel US aircraft with ex-Japan Airlines and Dutch KC-10 even after the Air Force ...

Aerial firefighting has become an essential part of wildfire suppression strategies, offering the speed, precision, and ...

As wildfires continue to burn in California, the Albuquerque-based 10 Tanker is still hard at work helping ground crews with ...

Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.

While 10 Tanker is based in Albuquerque, they get sent all over the U.S. and the world. “We’re one of five in America, and we run the largest air tankers in the world, which are the DC-10s ...

A fleet of firefighting aircraft sits at the Santa Maria Public Airport where the state's extreme fire weather has led to an ...

works for 10 Tanker, an aerial firefighting organization. He flies a DC-10 Air Tanker. He helped to drop more than 175,000 gallons of fire retardant during more than a dozen flights over the fires ...

The company has a fleet of four converted DC-10 aircraft, known as very large air tankers, or VLATs. Get top local stories in Connecticut delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC ...

To fight the California fires, 10Tanker has four DC-10s and two — ships 912 and 914 — here in San Bernardino at the old Norton Air Force Base ... because we're the biggest tanker out here. This fire ...