Nine air tankers probably will return to the federal wildfire fighting fleet within the next few weeks, Mark Rey, USDA under secretary for natural resources and environment, announced Thursday. Rey ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Once a Cold War-era submarine attack plane, the Lockheed P2V has for years been both a mainstay of the nation's aerial firefighting arsenal and a cause for concern. Flying in the ...

Hawkins & Powers got one of its P2V-7s into the air, briefly, in 2004. But that May, the government terminated the contract it had for all 33 air tankers after concerns were raised with the planes' ...

SUPERIOR – The West Mullan fire defense started at dawn on Monday, as local crews burned out brush above homes against the hillside to prevent the main fire from reaching them. What started as a small ...

Neptune's Korean War-era submarine chasers make up half the U.S. Forest Service's heavy air tanker fleet nationwide, and it's lost two of them in the past eight months. There are just three companies ...