The last line of defense against megafires.
A next-generation aerial infrastructure built for the 3% of wildfires that cause 90% of the damage.
In the press
Covered on four continents.
When Israel Aerospace Industries and Fire Free Forests unveiled the 767 Fire-Fighter, the aviation, defence and fire-service press picked it up around the world.
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The era of megafires
The fires are bigger, hotter and harder to stop.
Deeper droughts, longer seasons and denser fuel have pushed wildfire past the limits ground and air crews were built for. The largest fires now generate their own weather, throw embers for kilometres and keep burning through the night, when fire once lay down. A small number of these events does most of the harm.
Burned in Canada's record 2023 season, more than double the previous national high.
Natural Resources Canada, 2023
Rise in the frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires over two decades.
Cunningham et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024
Projected increase in extreme wildfire risk by 2100 on a high-emissions path.
UN Environment, Spreading Like Wildfire, 2022
Why control fails
Almost every fire is caught. The few that escape are not.
Crews stop the vast majority of ignitions during initial attack. The danger is the rare fire that breaks away under extreme wind and drought. Once it crosses that threshold, conventional tankers and ground teams can slow it but rarely stop it. These are the fires that level towns and exhaust a whole season's resources.
of wildfires escape initial control
of the destruction comes from them
Based on wildland fire suppression statistics from North American and European fire agencies.
The FFF solution
Built for the fires that nothing else can stop.
Fire Free Forests operates a fleet of heavy aerial firefighting systems built on converted Boeing 767 wide-body aircraft. Each one carries a retardant load far beyond conventional tankers and reaches a fire front fast, wherever it is deployed. It is a last line of defense: not a replacement for the crews already in the field, but the force that arrives once a fire crosses the threshold and everything else is losing ground.
- Heavy payload
- A retardant load far beyond conventional tankers, designed to change the behaviour of a megafire before it becomes uncontrollable.
- Wide-body reach
- The Boeing 767 platform brings long range and fast redeployment between fire fronts.
- Last-resort role
- Sized for the escaped fires that overwhelm ground crews and conventional aircraft.
Technology & system
More than an aircraft. An integrated response system.
The aircraft is one layer. Around it, Fire Free Forests integrates drones, satellite intelligence, prediction and optimization, and real-time command and control, so detection, targeting and suppression act as a single system. It continuously determines where each aircraft should intervene to maximize the probability of containing the fire. The mission and avionics systems are developed with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), our technology partner.
Technology partner·Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
Aircraft platform
A converted Boeing 767, the heavy-lift backbone of the fleet.
Drones & satellites
Aerial and orbital sensors map fire behaviour as it unfolds.
Prediction & optimization
Forecasts where the fire is heading and where a drop will bend its behaviour, so each sortie gets ahead of the fire instead of chasing it.
Command & control
A real-time C3 layer coordinates every asset over the fire.
How it sustains itself
A standing force, funded like the infrastructure it is.
Fighting megafires demands aircraft that are ready before the season starts, not chartered once a country is already burning. Fire Free Forests is built to be that permanent capability: funded for readiness, deployed on demand, and structured to grow without locking capital into the airframes themselves.
Recurring readiness
Agencies secure standing access to the fleet ahead of each season, turning emergency response into dependable, recurring revenue.
Deployed on demand
Beyond readiness, every mission flown is contracted on use, so revenue scales with the fires that actually break out.
Asset-light fleet
Aircraft are leased rather than owned outright, freeing the company to expand capacity without carrying the full cost of the airframes.
Toward an insurance model
As the fleet proves it cuts losses, the model extends toward risk transfer, aligning Fire Free Forests with insurers and the assets they protect.
Structure shown for context. Commercial terms and financials are shared privately with qualified investors.
Credibility
Built by people who know aircraft, fire and capital.
An undertaking this ambitious lives or dies on the team behind it. Fire Free Forests brings together aviation, diplomacy, defense technology and capital, alongside Israel Aerospace Industries as its technology partner, to turn a bold idea into operational reality.
Marc Berdugo
Founder & Non-Executive Chairman
Founder of Fire Free Forests. He set the vision for a permanent aerial response to megafires and leads the company's strategy and financing.
Eric Danon
Chief Executive Officer
Former Ambassador of France with deep aerospace experience. He brings the institutional reach and operational rigor to deploy the fleet alongside governments and agencies.
Advisory bench
Senior advisors guide the company across its core disciplines.
Aerospace engineering
Aircraft conversion and certification.
Wildfire operations
Aerial firefighting doctrine and deployment.
Defense systems
Mission systems, sensors and C3.
Capital & insurance
Financing structure and risk transfer.
Vision 2034
A permanent global shield against megafires.
The first aircraft prove the model. From there, Fire Free Forests scales into a standing fleet positioned across the regions where megafires strike, ready to move between continents as the season follows the sun. The goal is not to fight one fire better. It is to make catastrophic wildfire a problem the world is finally equipped to contain.
Now
First aircraft in service
Prove the system end to end on the fires that conventional response cannot hold.
Next
A fleet on every front
Scale capacity and pre-position aircraft across the world's most exposed fire regions.
2034
Global standing infrastructure
A permanent, cross-continental layer of protection for forests, communities and the climate they hold.
Protecting our forests. Saving lives. At the scale the threat now demands.
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