Air tankers dropped 59 loads—approximately 34,200 gallons of water fighting the fire, according to the Kansas Forest Service.

The fire has scorched over 239,000 acres as of Friday evening and air tankers continue to come in ... First thing next week, ...

The DC-10 is one of dozens of aircraft assisting in fighting the California wildfires ... water to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are ...

Wind gusts dramatically increased fire activity on Tuesday afternoon March 25. This resulted in greater visible fire ...

Television images from the BBC showed at least one vessel ablaze with clouds of black smoke billowing into the air. The coastguard ... and nearby vessels with fire-fighting capability were called ...

The Pauline Road fire, a more than 2,300 acre-long fire first detected Wednesday afternoon in San Jacinto County near the Montgomery County line, was 45 percent contained as of Friday morning.

A fire in San Jacinto County near Montgomery County grows to 2,000 acres and forces evacuations and school closures.

Thompson’s calls for more brush fire trucks, volunteer firefighter training programs, and mobile water tankers are reasonable. What is unreasonable is that they were needed long before this disaster.

Air tankers were called in to help battle the flames. As of 6 p.m. Tuesday, no injuries were reported, and no structures had caught fire.