The Green Fire will now also be fought by two Super Scooper planes as the blaze grows to more than 10,000 acres.

The Super Scooper skims the water’s surface at 100 mph, collecting 1,600 gallons in under 12 seconds. The pilot drops the load directly above the wildfire, then circles back to repeat the process.

Other Super Scoopers operating in the U.S. are on loan from Canada, like the Quebec 1 that was hit by the drone in L.A. Officials there have leased a pair of CL-415 planes from the government of ...

A firefighter suffered a heat-related illness battling Shasta's County Green Fire, which grew about 2,000 acres overnight to ...

Following is a transcript of the video. [plane engine whirring] Narrator: These pilots are flying what's called a Super Scooper. At around $30 million, it's one of the most expensive aerial ...

A Super Scooper aircraft drops water over the Martindale fire on September 28, 2020. Super Scoopers are proving vital to fighting the fires in Los Angeles. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images ...

Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper Plane figh. One of the “Super Scooper” planes aiding in the battle against the Los Angeles wildfires was damaged after colliding with a drone and is now grounded, ...

The USDA Forest Service expressed appreciation for the "super scooper planes," which began actively combating the Siphon Fire late Friday. The "super scooper," or CL 415 plane, is highly effective ...

Super Scooper planes that fight wildfires are ‘rugged, reliable' — and rare Only about 160 of the fire-dousing aircraft, which are built in Canada using a 55-year-old design, are in operation ...

One reason last week’s collision between a firefighting plane and a drone caused such a stir was because Los Angeles doesn’t have many spare “Super Scoopers” to take the aircraft’s place.