One thing that was impossible to miss -- as fires raged through L.A. -- was the fight from the air. Officials say it might have been the largest number of aircraft at a fire event, ever.
Dan Child and a copilot were coordinating aerial efforts to attack the Palisades fire the night of Jan. 7 when the winds became so strong they were struggling just to maintain altitude. The two ...
“The sound of helicopters never stops,” Pasang says. “They start flying at 6 a.m. and don’t stop until sunset. It disrupts our lives.” It’s more than just the noise; the air traffic ...
Tanker 47 rears up as helicopter pilot Darren Davies settles it to hover over the Encino Reservoir, a half-mile-wide artificial lake perched on the shoulder of a hill overlooking the San Fernando ...
A Chinook helicopter makes a water-bombing run over the Palisades ... Davies, 54, joined Coulson six years ago after flying these big machines in all kinds of situations: slinging seismic ...