Illustration showing California landscape with a helicopter over a reservoir, image The Firehawk uses a retractable snorkel to take 1,000 gallons of water into its tank in less than a minute.

Sikorsky also makes civilian Firehawk helicopters for states, counties and municipalities that fly them to suppress wildfires. GE Aerospace makes Black Hawk engines, with the Army planning to ...

Hartwig recalled the first time he saw the county’s new Firehawk helicopter fly a mission, the Patera Fire in 2022, which was moving downhill, pushed by a blustery wind in Goleta: “The Firehawk kept a ...

A Firehawk Helicopters building can be seen at right and Jackson Jet Center at left. City of Boise The collapse killed Nampa residents Mario Sontay Tzi, 32, and Mariano “Alex” Coc Och ...

The school in 2021 opened a concrete helipad designed to accommodate the needs of a Firehawk helicopter in an effort to assist local firefighters by giving them a location to refill the craft’s ...

A new blaze broke out in Ventura County on Thursday morning. Picture: X@VCFD_PIO Firehawk helicopters were deployed in water dropping operations over the fire. Picture: X@VCFD_PIO About 200 ...

VCFD reported: "Firefighters made a quick and aggressive attack on this fire with multiple engines, one of our hand crews, and coordinated water drops by our Firehawk helicopters.

An OCFA Firehawk demonstrates a water drop after ... 3,700 gallons of water and refills automatically when firefighting helicopters are battling a blaze…(Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County ...