The Los Angeles County Fire Department has placed an order with Sikorsky for two additional S-70i Firehawk firefighting helicopters. In a year that brutally demonstrated the threat that wildfires pose ...

According to data from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), this year alone America had to fight 48,458 wildfires, and lost 4.3 million acres of wilderness in the process. At the rate things ...

Though the helicopters will be based in and operated by the Czech Republic, the procurement is backed up by the European Union’s rescEU plan, which seeks to establish a strategic reserve of disaster ...

The County of Los Angeles Fire Department is acquiring an additional two Sikorsky S-70 Firehawk helicopters to bolster its existing fleet of five aircraft. The order, announced Oct. 29, comes after a ...