When firefighters on the ground need some extra support, they call in air tankers. There are four DC 10 tankers in the world, and one of them is right here in the Valley. FOX 10's Kenzie Beach has ...

The DC-10 is one of dozens of aircraft assisting ... Helicopters are generally dropping water to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are ...

RK Smithley gave ABC15 an inside look at an air tanker that fights fires around the world. The DC-10 Tanker, repurposed from an old commercial jetliner, is outfitted to drop up to 9,400 gallons ...

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 ...

Can you please look into this this is a serious problem?” Texas has previously used the DC-10 air tanker to battle major fires, but there is a lot to unravel here, so I hope my answer gets you ...

10 Tanker’s DC-10 planes are now responding to the Hughes ... “It’s a well orchestrated machine with the base personnel, fuelers, air traffic controllers and, most importantly for us ...

Read full article: Ask Anthony: Why wasn’t a DC-10 firefighting plane used during the Pauline Road Fire? In the past, we’ve used the DC-10 air tanker to battle major fires, so one viewer asked ...

Firefighters have help fighting the Tenderfoot Fire from the air. They've enlisted the help of a DC-10 air tanker to fight the wildfire.

Yet that's exactly what happened at the end of last week, when the U.S. Air ... tanker, and as such it's packed to the teeth with tanks: there are three in the wings, just like the DC-10 had ...

A converted DC-10 aircraft owned by 10 Tanker Air Carrier LLC sits on the tarmac at the Casper/Natrona County International Airport after arriving to fight the Sheep Herder Hill F ...

A derivative of the Boeing DC-10 passenger jet ... The AMC describes the transition to the 767-based tanker as a “new era of air-to-air refuelling for the mobility air forces”.

Next in line was a massive DC-10 operated by 10 Tanker which dropped a long line of retardant, then was instructed to “load and return” to the tanker base at KIWA. Air tankers pounded the fire ...