In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, to test new drone-based technology for localized forecasting, or micrometeorology. Researchers attached wind sensors to a ...

Soon after catastrophic fires swept through Pacific Palisades and Altadena, wildfire experts Stephen Pyne and Jack Cohen were ...

Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and ...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government, launched as the deadly Palisades and Eaton ...

President Trump’s hiring freeze is affecting 18,000 federal firefighters from reporting to work, including coming to Southern ...

U.S. wildland firefighter efforts may soon be consolidated under a new bill introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Tim ...

The recent LA fires drove home how dangerous wildfires can be when they encroach on urban areas. So-called 'wildland-urban interface' fires are on the rise. However, building codes and standards have ...

With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.

James Bartels was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sparking 26 fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors announced on Monday.

Recent wildfires are larger and more intense than they've ever been in the historical record. If you've been watching the news at any point in the last decade, that's no surprise.