“We could have rapid fire spread in basically any direction.” At eight o’clock, I climbed into one of several white pickup trucks as part of a twenty-person handcrew, a team of wildland ...

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 ...

A camp that prepared women to become wildland firefighters has been paused because of President Donald Trump's executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal ...

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basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.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

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 ...

The Tomah North Side Fire Station is home to a mannequin wearing an old uniform worn by Tomah firefighters in the late 1800s. However, the outfit is missing something important: a pair of pants.

both advocate for a more sophisticated understanding of fire and the ecosystems that foster urban and wildland blazes. Fire is so often viewed as a crisis and emergency that it is divorced from ...

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 ...

“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.

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: ...

Istanbul, Turkey — A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said ...

OGDEN, Utah (KUTV) — A massive fire erupted at a five-story apartment building. The Ogden Fire Department responded to the fire on 22nd Street, between the blocks of Grant and Lincoln Ave., ...