As wildfires get worse, firefighters are struggling to combat blazes and remain in a job with poor labour conditions.
At eight o’clock, I climbed into one of several white pickup trucks as part of a twenty-person handcrew, a team of wildland firefighters ... A man named Ben was crew boss, meaning that the ...
The FHL crew went with a Wildland Firefighting Engine (E-8833 ... James Krenkel, who served as the engine boss during the deployment. He says because FHL is situated in a fire prone area with ...
Chris Dols was one of hundreds who flooded to the streets of Washington, D.C. this week to protest the shutdown of the ...
Since the southern pine beetle was first detected in Napeague and Hither Hills state parks in the fall of 2021, it has spread ...
The Fort Hunter Liggett crew brought a Wildland Firefighting Engine ... James Krenkel, who served as the engine boss during the deployment, said the Strike Team included fire crews from Salinas, ...
The crew, which is part of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, is highly skilled and specially trained in all aspects of wildland fire impression. The group left Grand Rapids Friday ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded. Jenn McCarthy has worked as ...
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland-urban interface. And when fires sweep through ...
Captain Jeremy Sones led brush engine 13, an apparatus specifically designed to help beat back flames in a wildland-urban interface. His crew included firefighter Michael LoMastro, engineer Chris ...