CBS News first reported that an “unauthorized drone” had damaged the firefighting aircraft after ... public’s help in order to identify the operator of the drone.” Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews ...

released new images of the damaged water-dropping firefighting aircraft where the hole from the collision is clearly visible. Since the investigation began, some parts of the drone have been found, ...

Saltwater corrodes firefighting equipment and may ... forests react to their first exposures to salty water. In our TEMPEST test plots, we pump salty water from the nearby Chesapeake Bay into ...

"Then there's the single-engine air tankers that might be either used for aerial firefighting or for crop spraying," he said. "They can still drop about 3,000 litres of water and, in many states ...

Officials with FBI Los Angeles are searching for the operator of a privately owned drone that collided with a Canadian ... “[Operating private drones is] going to take firefighting efforts [away] from ...