During a new process aimed at increasing the county’s fiscal transparency, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone on ...

Prompted by the Los Angeles wildfire disaster, the Board of Supervisors voted to obtain a twin-engine helicopter and more ...

San Diego County wants to buy a second firefighting helicopter equipped for making water drops at night. It has nearly $4 million in hand but needs to find $14 million to pay for it. The Board of ...

A former Army pilot. An aging helicopter. Furious winds. The race to put out the Eaton fire tested Los Angeles County’s night-flying firefighters like never before. Video of the devastation of ...

A new atmospheric river is slamming California, including fire-ravaged Los Angeles, where residents are bracing for the possibility of mudslides and landslides.

With the use of drones, the LA Sheriff’s Department can keep an eye on search and rescue missions, fire response and rain ...

Read about the challenges faced by Sterling Klippel and his stormwater crews as they work to prevent catastrophic mudslides in Southern California.

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Two significant storms are hitting two different parts of the country at the same time as a frenzied weather pattern shows no ...

The morning of July 16, 2022, four first responders with the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office air support unit climbed aboard what lawsuits describe as a death trap. The three crew members who ...

Los Angeles County sheriff's officials didn ... Water-dropping helicopters were dispatched to the small Laguna Fire that erupted in hills above the campus, where about 7,000 students are ...