Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pentagon deployed modified C-130 aircraft to aid in the fight against the Los Angeles wildfires. The wildfires spread rapidly ...

A new video shows a pair of C-130 transport aircraft on a flight through Hell, flying low through the smoke of a forest fire before spraying fire retardant on the smoldering ground below. The big ...

FILE - In this July 3, 2012 photo, an aircraft makes a drop on the Quail Fire above Alpine, Utah. The demise of a California company that built a device that sprays fire retardant from U.S. military C ...

MAFFS DEPLOYED: Six C-130 aircraft with Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems (MAFFS) units will be directed to assist in fighting the fires in Southern California, according to Gov. Arnold ...

The Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira: FAB) is using Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules medium transport/multirole aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) to ...

A Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems (MAFFS) equipped C-130 aircraft drops fire retardant on wildfires in Healdsburg, California.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Department of Defense deployed ...

The demise of Sacramento-based Aero Union has some experts worried about the future viability of the program that has helped fight wildfires for 40 years. The component inside the C-130 is the Modular ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – The demise of the only company that manufactured a device specially designed to spray fire retardant from the back of U.S. military C-130 cargo planes has some experts worried ...