Minimum safe drop heights are in development for large firefighting aircraft in Australia, to address safety issues ...

The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau says minimum safe drop limits should be rolled out nationally in a bid to avoid a ...

The 737 was converted into an air tanker by Canadian company Coulson Aviation, and is on contract to the NSW Rural Fire Service. The fire-fighting agency has nine other water-bombing aircraft ...

The fleet of 500 aircraft now includes a Coulson Fireliner Boeing 737 air tanker, capable of carrying ... which slows the fire down and allows the people on the ground to actually put the fire ...

Fire broke out on board ... had been able to board the tanker in order to assess the situation. "For operational reasons we have decided to continue fighting the fire at a mooring" after the ...

Helicopters were also on their way to the tanker transporting fire brigade teams, while three ships have reportedly begun fighting the fire. Black smoke from the burning ship is reportedly visible ...

Motorists and members of the public are advised to avoid the N4 just before M17 in Pretoria North, where a 38000-litre diesel tanker has caught fire. Tshwane Emergency Services spokesperson ...

The DGzRS rescue cruiser Arkona is fighting the fire on the coastal tanker Annika in the Baltic Sea. An oil tanker is on fire in the Baltic Sea off the coast of north-eastern Germany, the German ...

fire crews were alerted to assist the Refton Fire Company with fighting a “wind-driven fire” on Scheller Road in Providence Township. An engine had to set up a water supply to fill tankers, and the ...

Some truck drivers and a furniture maker whose vehicles and goods were destroyed in a tanker fire incident along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Wednesday have appealed to the Ogun State Governor ...

A fire that broke out on board an oil tanker off Germany's Baltic Sea coast ... have it towed to the port city of Rostock to continue fighting the blaze. Firefighters inspected the 73-meter ...

Fire broke out on board a small oil tanker off Germany Friday, with seven crew rescued from the burning vessel ... Video published by Bild daily online had earlier showed a fire-fighting vessel aiming ...