Volunteer wildland firefighters from several counties spent the weekend learning crucial chainsaw skills in Colorado Springs.

Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildland firefighting is physically and emotionally intense. The job is also essential for community safety. Neal Waters/Anadolu ...

NEW YORK — Governor Kathy Hochul has announced New York’s Volunteer Firefighter Training Stipend program is being expanded to reimburse costs related to Basic Wildland Fire Suppression for ...

With a puny snowpack in the Western mountains and a widespread drought, the nation is a tinderbox. A reorganization of ...

CHEYENNE – Wyoming no longer has a fire season – instead, the state experiences fire year-round. Even so, as summer ...

Brian Fennessy, new head of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, says his agency is 'trying to bring on additional aircraft and bring them on early,' and dismisses criticism of prevention methods.

As cool weather arrives and the number of U.S. wildfires declines, wildland firefighters who have spent months working in the heat and smoke are able to take a much-needed break. But for many of them, ...

Nevada fire officials are warning that record low snowpack and abundant fuels could raise the potential for large-scale ...

Amid drought, over 450 firefighters train at Shippensburg, honoring fallen hero David Warfel’s legacy while preparing for ...

Who in the world would knowingly choose a career that offers hours and hours or days and days of strenuous physical labor, limited clean air, no access to large-diameter hoselines, occasional ...

As we watch the fires burn our neighbors’ homes in southern California, we have to keep in mind that the fires are not burning because of an inadequate water supply or a particular fire chief or ...