This Chinook was all fired up prior to taking off but there was a problem with the rear engine so everything jhad to be shut down and a mechanic called out. He must have fixed the problem as it took off a hour later.

N15LA pictured here during a training session dropping and picking up rescue swimmers over Castaic Lake north of LA, is the 3rd S-70A Firehawk the LA County FD took on strength in January 2005. The other two are N160LA and N190LA. Two S-70i Firehawks were added in 2018 and registered N821LA and N822LA respectively, bringing the total S-70 LACFD fleet to five. The LA County FD plans to replace the three older S-70A with two new S-70i's in the near future. Registration N15LA was previously assigned to another LAFCD helicopter, a Bell 205A-1.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) Air Operations operates 10 aircraft - 5 Sikorsky S-70 Firehawks (three S-70A and two S-70i) and 5 Bell 412s (three 412EPs and two 412HPs) - for paramedic transport, hoist rescues and wildland firefighting. Based at Barton Heliport at Whiteman Airport, each morning, a minimum of three regional air squads are operational including deployments to the North (Fire Station 129 Lancaster), East (Brackett Field) and, in fire season, to the West (Fire Camp 8 in Malibu). It received two S-70As in 2001, one in 2005 and two S-70i's in 2020, including N821LA.

The L.A. County Fire Department started to use Bell 412's in early 1990. Seven Bell 412 airframes have been introduced over the years, with two Bell 412HP and three Bell 412EP remaining in service when this picture was taken. N14LA is a 2005 built airframe returning to its homebase for maintenance here, after having spent the previous 24 hours on stand-by on a forward operating base.

Parked by the roadside in Malibu, CA. Built in 1972. Ex-N14810. Later N3007J, C-GVHQ, N689CC, C-GVHQ, N205SJ, N931CH and N304HA. Current on the register in 2023.

With the Los Angeles County Fire Dept since 2008.

This airframe was the 2nd S-70A "Firehawk" purchased new by the LACoFD in 2001. It returns here at 8am from a 24 hour shift it spent on Helipad "Bravo 69", which is located closer to a possible bush fire than Barton heliport, cutting down the response time if need be. Each day around 10am, another S-70 heads out to Bravo 69, while the previous ship undergoes maintenance at Barton, HQ of LACoFD's aviation branch.

The early morning dense fog has lifted and made the way free for Firehawk 'Copter 16'.

The Firehawk on display at Los Alamitos AAF.

Built in 2001, this airframe is the first of a total of five Firehawks operated by the Los Angeles County Fire Department Air Operations out of Barton Heliport, adjacent to the northeast of Whiteman Airport (IATA: WHP; ICAO: KWHP).

Tanker 18 was registered to the County of Los Angeles Fire Department in August 1992. Still current with them by 2020.

Flying over Dockweiler Beach near LAX