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The LAFD's Air Operations released a video Friday that showed helicopters flying above California's Santa Monica Mountains as the Palisades Fire rages below. ... the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood ...
Brett Willis, Los Angeles Fire Department's battalion chief over air operations, said there were at least three sizes of helicopters flying during the attack, including ones that can hold 480 ...
A post shared on social media purportedly shows a video of a helicopter lifting water out of the Pacific Ocean to fight the current fires in Los Angeles. Verdict: False The video dates back to 2019.
On August 30, 1966, Policemen Larry Amberg and Alex N. Ilnicki, were on traffic patrol in Air 1 (Bell 47G, reg. N1162W) flying in the vicinity of Dodger Stadium, when a media helicopter (Bell 47G, reg. N1157W) was also in the area reporting on freeway traffic conditions. Air 1 and the media helicopter collided, resulting in the deaths of both ...
As a result, contracts were entered into with four California contractors, Aero Union Corp., Sis-Q Flying Service, TBM Inc. and Hemet Valley Flying Service to modify and tank ten S-2 air tankers during the 1973/1974 winter period. As a result, 12 S-2As were placed in service in 1974 and five more were built by Bay Aviation Services and put into ...
In June 2007 The Hemet-Ryan Airport was approved $2.5 million from the Riverside County Board of Supervisors and over $25 million from the state for the redevelopment of the air-attack facilities. The upgrades would include extending the runway from 4,300 feet (1,300 m) to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) to accommodate heavier firefighting aircraft such ...
More than 80 planes and helicopters are being used to battle the fierce flames, which have destroyed more than 12,000 structures. "Wind's the fire, boss," said Jimmy Harris, a fire captain for Cal ...
In January 1949, a Sikorsky S-51 crashed off the terminal annex post office in Downtown Los Angeles, killing pilot Harry Slemmons, 27. [10]On July 2, 1951, a Sikorsky S-51 crashed in an orange grove between Pomona, California and Ontario, fatally injuring pilot John De Blau, 29, and civil aeronautics inspector, Wyman Ellis Jr., 44, both of Los Angeles.