Alaska rural fire departments have been awarded $306,292 in funding to improve firefighting capabilities. The grant will help ...

Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.

Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human ...

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared ...

Wildland and City of Missoula fire crews are serving the community in a different way, raising money for charity through ...

Frampton said the DNRC was successful in finding enough local and non local wildland firefighters for the season.

Lake Worth FD conducted a controlled burn exercise with Fort Worth FD, training its Wildland Team and reducing wildfire risks.

The Fort Hunter Liggett Fire and Emergency Services supported a Mutual Aid request to support the Pacific Palisades Fire in ...

We are severely understaffed,” said Jerry May, president of San Jose Firefighters Local 230 Union and a San Jose Fire ...

The 2025 federal hiring freeze caused countless wildland firefighters to worry about their jobs. Here's how USDA responded.

The Los Angeles Fire Department has less than one firefighter for every 1,000 residents, with a staffing rate of 0.90, a Bay ...

Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley asked for full-time employees to augment a mostly volunteer brush-clearing crew two years ago.