The L.A. County Fire Department said the plane, known as Quebec 1, was damaged after it was struck by a civilian drone at 1 p.m. Thursday over the city’s Pacific Palisades neighbourhood ...

Pascal Duclos, head pilot for the Quebec government's aerial service, said he spent several hours in the air on Tuesday, dumping dozens of loads of water over fire-devastated areas from his plane.

A 56-year-old Californian man has agreed to plead guilty to operating the drone that crashed into a Quebec water bomber plane fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles earlier this month.