On2, 2025, U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz piloted a C-130J Super Hercules over the Hughes Fire in Castaic, ...

The Cal Fire C-130 is a flying fortress of firefighting power. The converted US Coast Guard cargo plane is loaded with 36,000 pounds of flame retardant or water, to put out fast moving flames. This ...

The planes can “discharge their entire load of up to 3,000 gallons of retardant in less than five seconds, covering an area one-quarter of a mile long by 100 feet wide, or they can make variable drops ...

There are strict rules for aircraft operating in and around a fire to make sure everyone’s flying in a predictable manner.

Equipped with airborne fire-fighting systems, C-130 Super Hercules planes are flying missions over the wildfires in Southern California that started earlier this month. California Air National ...

When deployed as a firefighting aircraft, the C-130 can be equipped with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) unit to support other air tankers in aerial suppression. The MAFFS units ...

The C-130 air tanker, which is able to carry up to 4,000 gallons of water or fire retardant, proved to be a valuable aerial attack resource during the initial stages ...

Four service members were injured when an Air Force C-130 overshot the runway at Camp ... After hitting the wall, the aircraft caught on fire, but rescuers were on the scene within four minutes ...

Three Wyoming Air National Guard C-130s equipped with the U.S. Forest Service’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or MAFFS, and associated personnel were activated Friday by U.S. Northern ...

Mutliple C-130 Hercules aircraft equipped with Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems are in the air. The MAFFS-equipped aircraft, which drop fire retardant from the air, are from the 146th Airlift ...

In the wake of multiple wildfires ravaging suburban Los Angeles the past week, the Wyoming National Guard is sending three ...

Three Wyoming Air National Guard C-130s equipped with the U.S. Forest Service’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or ...