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The CAL FIRE Aviation Management Program is a branch of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (known also as CAL FIRE). Due to the frequency and severity of wildfires in California , the state has elected to establish its own aerial firefighting force rather than rely solely on contract or national resources.
For aerial firefighters - or fire bombers, as they are commonly called - hitting the target is "the seat of the pants part" of the job, said Calderoni, a pilot with 10 Tanker, an aerial ...
The 115th Airlift Squadron (115 AS) is a unit of the California Air National Guard 146th Airlift Wing located at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Oxnard, California. The 115th is equipped with the C-130J Hercules. The 115 AS is the oldest unit in the California Air National Guard, having almost 90 years of service to the state and ...
The California Air National Guard (CA ANG) is one of three components of the California National Guard, a reserve of the United States Air Force, and part of the National Guard of the United States. As militia units, the units in the California Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command.
Mike Schanley, a contract forestry fire pilot at Cal Fire’s Boggs Mountain helitack base, said the introduction of the Fire Hawks and their huge water tanks have been a game changer for aerial ...
Since 1974, using the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) units supplied by the U.S. Forest Service and mounted in four C-130s, the wing's aerial fire fighting crews have been credited with saving many lives and countless millions of dollars worth of structures, forests, and brush land in California, and many other States and ...
Cal Fire, known as the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, has 65 aircraft, making it the world’s largest civil firefighting fleet. That includes 23 S-2T air tankers, which ...
September 13, 2004 – While fighting a fire in the Stanislaus National Forest in northern California, seven members of a CDF helitack crew were engulfed in the flames when the wind shifted in their direction. The gust lasted for no more than 30 seconds, but one firefighter was killed and several of the survivors were critically burned. [4]