I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how ...

As part of a collective of sports leagues, NASCAR is helping out LA wildfire relief efforts with a new line of merchandise.

R.K. Smithley can do with a jumbo jet, which certainly qualifies him as bold. "We get into runs when you say, 'Oh boy, this is going to be a good one to keep your eyes open and focus,'" he said.

In the challenging mission to control the Los Angeles fire, R.K. Smithley plays a significant role by piloting a DC-10 aircraft through hazardous conditions. Tasked with flying at 170 miles per hour ...

Johnson, who ran nine NASCAR Cup Series races in 2024, will once again attempt the DAYTONA 500 on Feb. 16th marking his 22nd appearance in “The Great American Race.” Additionally, Johnson will ...

Over the weekend, Captain RK Smithley became a viral sensation when KTLA showed a video of him flying a DC-10 Air Tanker above an ongoing inferno and dropped the chemicals on top of it with ...

Capt. R.K. Smithley pauses as he searches for the appropriate word. He’s been asked to describe what it’s like flying a DC-10 just a few hundred feet above the ground, at 170 mph and carrying ...

But now, he’s doing so from the skies. Captain RK Smithley is one of several firefighters working to help put out the raging wildfires fom the air. He works for 10 Tanker — an aerial ...

Capt. RK Smithley told Fire Rescue 1 that he has helped to drop more than 175,000 gallons of fire retardant during more than a dozen flights over the fires. He said the winds have prevented them from ...

THAT’S YOUR FOREVER. REPORTIN Capt. RK Smithley, a Ligonier native who now lives in Tennessee, is up in the skies in California, working to stop the catastrophic wildfires."It's tough to see ...