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Developed after Palisades and Eaton Fires, new facility will provide firefighters a critical water source for aerial suppression of wildfires PALOS VERDES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the wake of ...
CABAZON, Calif. — Mark Whaling and a crew raced up and down a hill in a tanker truck as they battled a wildfire in Los Angeles County, scrambling to get water from a street hydrant in time to stay ...
BATTLE GROUND — New water tanks arrived airborne Wednesday to fix an aging water system at a youth camp on rugged Clark County-owned property. A helicopter delivered three 6,000-gallon water tanks ...
William H. "Bill" Mensing, the owner of an aircraft sheet-metal business whose improved water-drop tanks made for Los Angeles County Fire Department helicopters in the early 1970s became widely used, ...