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Canada Shares Firefighting Aircraft with L.A. After Its Own Fires

The city of Los Angeles is counting on a heavy presence of Canadians on its fire departments this week as multiple fires ravage the city and tens of thousands of people are forced to flee their homes. Specifically, the Quebec government confirmed Wednesday that its aircraft are currently working to extinguish the Los Angeles fire. […]

Civilian drone 'incursions' are disrupting wildland firefighting operations

Aerial firefighting has faced the constant nuisance of 21 “public drone intrusions” so far this wildfire season, according to a report by the National Joint Fire Centre. Ten of those fires required grounding firefighting aircraft, according to data from the Boise, Idaho-based coalition of federal and state wildfire agencies, which warned that such conditions could […]

‘Chronic threat’ of PFAS firefighting foams raised in 2003 secret UK report | PFAS

The Environment Agency was warned about the “chronic threat” to the environment from firefighting foams containing PFAS “forever chemicals” as far back as 2003 – 20 years before it began regulating the chemicals, it has emerged. The 200-page report The end report was obtained According to information provided to the Guardian through a Freedom of […]

Jordan stations 2 firefighting helicopters in Cyprus

Jordan on Monday sent two helicopters to Cyprus to help fight potential forest fires until the Mediterranean island nation can lease its own firefighting aircraft for the summer fire season. stationed there. Cypriot Environment Minister Maria Panayiotou said the Cypriot government considers firefighting and prevention to be a national security priority and is also moving […]