N301FD — live tracking every few seconds while it is in the air, and who this aircraft is the rest of the time.
Fire 1 is N301FD, a Leonardo AW139 flown by the Los Angeles Fire Department's Air Operations section — the City of Los Angeles's own fire department, separate from LA County Fire. LAFD's AW139s are twin-engine medium helicopters that drop water on brush fires inside the city, hoist people out of the hills and off the rocks, and fly the badly hurt to hospital. The FAA registers the airframe to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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The portrait of Fire 1 is an AI-generated fleet illustration, made from photographs of the real aircraft; markings follow the photographed livery. LAFD is not affiliated with GTLA.