The new concept brings two, Type-1 firefighting helicopters to the Rocky Mountain Region to be pre-positioned where fire ...

“Fire is always where people are,” Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But the genie is out of the bottle.

Farrell Hayes represents something that veteran firefighters say is harder to come by these days: a young person who wants to ...

USFS says it’s ready for fire season after asking separated employees to come back, but employees say the losses have been "crippling." ...

Separately, the Jenkins Creek Fire ignited late Monday morning, about 9 miles northeast of the Camp House Fire near Fairbanks, Minn. It grew quickly to 1,500 acres by evening, the U.S. Forest ...

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Wednesday commissioned three new firefighting trucks to tackle emergency fire incidents across the state. The governor said the ...

FOREST, Va. (WSET) — The Forest Volunteer Fire Department has introduced a new addition to its fleet: the Tower Five ladder truck. This $2 million project was deemed necessary to accommodate the ...

A small tribal fire department with just 15 firefighters and emergency personnel in the upper Sonoran Desert would seem to be an unlikely first responder for wildfire, but the Fort McDowell Fire ...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — Firefighters are still working around the clock to contain two wildfires that have scorched more than 1,000 acres in Michaux State Forest, prompting evacuations, road ...

What the forest needs is for that stuff to burn so we can get rid of it.” FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE Prescribed burns are another method for mitigating the amount of fuel a particular forest has to burn.

So, the trucks, the people, the airplanes,” Williams said. “When we have a fire, I can call the governor. They send state assets. But at some point, if it's really bad, we have to call the feds.