On the morning of Jan. 7, as thick black smoke billowed over the Pacific Palisades, newsrooms across the city mobilized without a key piece of news-gathering equipment. Television news choppers were ...

LAFD’s helicopter pilots were ready to go ... Helicopters are kept separate from fixed-wing aircraft, which work on a separate portion of the fire, the pilots said. That feedback is crucial ...

Interviews with pilots paint a graphic picture of the struggle to maintain control of their ships amid one of the most ...

At this time, you hate to jump to any conclusions,’ Rep. Andy Ogles said before suggesting diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Dan Child, chief pilot for LAFD, was only a few hours into his shift ... Later in the week, as the winds began to die down, almost anything with wings or rotor blades that could help save the ...

The plane in question, Quebec 1, “sustained wing damage and remains grounded and out of service,” Los Angeles Fire Department ... a firefighting team of 25 pilots and 20 technicians.