BROOMFIELD, Colo — Starting in July, a team of two large SkyCrane helicopters, based out of the Jeffco Airtanker Base in Broomfield, will help create a powerful new firefighting team, according to the ...

A firefighting helicopter crew’s decision to fly an altitude higher than they were cleared for and the subsequent rapid descent led to the deaths of three people in a midair collision in 2023, ...

The U.S. Forest Service has shifted aerial wildfire firefighting resources along Colorado's Front Range. Two large 'sky crane' helicopters were moved into position at Broomfield's Rocky Mountain ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The U.S. Forest Service is funding a new firefighting team based out of the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, bringing two SkyCrane helicopters to the region. According to the U.S.

Three men died when two firefighting helicopters collided in midair near a Cabazon fire on Aug. 7, 2023. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) A lack of communication and a sudden, unauthorized descent ...