Colorado's investment in firefighting resources is offering help beyond stopping fires. That's especially true of Helitack teams with the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control. News5's Bill ...

CLE ELUM - Laden with chain saws, hand tools, radios, food, water and emergency fire shelters, the crews scrambled aboard the helicopters. Within minutes, they were flying over the ridge to the ...

CUSTER COUNTY, CO — A high mountain rescue from over the weekend shows the value of the fire helitack crews working in collaboration with search and rescue teams. According to a Facebook post from ...

One clear sign the Bay Area’s rainy season is starting is when Cal Fire starts shifting its training to water rescues. On Wednesday, helicopter crews known as Helitack, began training with other ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Recently a new Wildland Firefighting Helitack Program was launched in the state of Utah. FOX 13 News anchor Dan Evans met the crew to learn about what a dangerous but rewarding job it ...

NINEMILE – It’s hard to find a forest fire without a helicopter hovering its way toward trouble. This summer, a few U.S. Forest Service choppers will specialize in flying toward safety. “This is a new ...

KERNVILLE, Calif. (KERO) — For the past few years, the genders of those on the team have been close to evenly split, a rarity in wildland firefighting units. The Kernville Helitack is a team ...

If you are badly injured in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, the rescue may include dangling from a fixed line attached to the Mesa Verde Helitack helicopter. Short-haul operations are a ...

A Helitack crew member prepares to jump while hovering over nine feet of brush during training near Pozo on July 17, 1967. The firefighters trained to clear a spot for reinforcements to arrive. Jim ...

KIMBERLY • A helicopter blade beat the air as a chainsaw wrapped in orange netting zipped across the sky above the drying desert near Indian Springs. Moments earlier, firefighter crews of the Bureau ...

PLATTE COUNTY – On June 22, approximately 25 wildland firefighters trained on wildfire related tasks. The morning was spent on pump operations, working in tandem, structure protection and water use.