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.

Two large wildfires in Northern California, one near Shasta Lake, continue to burn amid extremely hot weather, sending smoke ...

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 ...

Farrell told News 13 that the Super Scooper needs a water source at least one mile long. They fly in with two valves open on the bottom of the plane. Then, 1,412 gallons of water are “scooped ...

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 ...

NORTH CAROLINA (WLOS) — Amid recent wildfires across Western North Carolina, it has been hard to miss the Canadair CL-215T, an amphibious, yellow and red firefighting airplane otherwise known as ...

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.