Fox 25 spoke with the Kildare fire chief about ... doesn't even include wildland gear. "You're looking right at $4,000 a set. That's helmet, boots, coat, pants, gloves, Nomex hood.

Even as I urged them to leave, from my home in the Mojave Desert, I was moved by a different compulsion: to get in my car, report to work and rush, via fire engine or helicopter, toward the fires. It ...

In my career I've worked for urban fire departments as well as federal wildland fire agencies. I've managed and directed many fires in the wildland urban interface as well as public wildlands and ...

At least 25 people have died. The threat of fire is growing, especially in zones known as the wildland-urban interface, or WUI. That’s where unoccupied wildland and human developments meet and mingle.

The Department of the Interior employed 5,780 federal wildland fire personnel in 2024, while the US Forest Service employed over 11,300. Federal firefighters “respond to fires all over the ...

The road was closed in both directions before reopening. Drivers in the area were asked to use caution when traveling.The Wildland Fire Management monitored until 9 p.m. Tuesday before resuming ...

“It’s shocking, surprising that L.A. city does not have any type of wildland fire program,” said Steve Gutierrez, who has battled blazes in the area as a former Angeles National Forest ...

The parking restrictions will “allow for improved fire department access and resident evacuation,” on the “narrow and/or winding roads within Pasadena’s urban-wildland interface areas ...

“If we’re cutting any positions, that’s a bad thing,” Alonzo said. “I mean, just to support the wildland fire efforts ...we need as many hands on deck as we can get right now.

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Nearly a thousand people are under a mandatory evacuation order after a brush fire broke out Tuesday afternoon near Fashion Valley Mall in Mission Valley. The Friars Fire broke out just after 12: ...