More than 5,000 acres of land have been consumed by the Palisades fire ... water from a water source. Smaller helicopters carrying anywhere between 100 to 400 gallons of water have buckets ...

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 ...

Volunteer firefighters in Tataskweyak Cree Nation have turned to buckets to fight fires due to the lack of running water in parts of the community. "We use water [in buckets] to put out the fire ...

Fighting the deadly wildfires in Southern California requires a coordinated team effort – from tactical crews attacking hazardous hot spots on the ground to planes and helicopters providing fire ...

IN a paper received from the Smithsonian Institution, a brief history is given of fire-fighting ... but the bucket brigades were still necessary in order to fill it with water.

A family in Oracle described leaving their home for the last time as the flames from the Cody Fire closed around them.

A Tesla Semi crash in California last month required firefighters to dump 50,000 gallons of water on the burning wreckage of the electric tractor-trailer in order to extinguish the fire ...

"Urban water distribution systems and their local storage (water tanks) within the service area are designed for fire-fighting. But these have been unusually large fires that might have exceeded ...

We’re used to that. .... The fact is we never quit fighting fire.” It’s still unclear exactly how widespread the water disruptions were, if they could have been avoided or if any more homes ...

Additional C-130s with Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems will join California firefighters, the U.S. Air Force reported Monday. Water and chemical fire retardant are used to fight wildfires.