From the southwestern U.S. to Minnesota, Iowa and even parts of New Jersey, it was a dismal winter. Many communities marked ...

Last week, the Central Arizona Wildland Response Team, consisting of Phoenix area fire departments and other entities, ...

The team, called the Fire Department Initial Attack crew (FDIA), will be made up of six members, according to the district's ...

Fire crews from Kittitas and Yakima counties will be conducting a prescribed wildland fire live training burn on Sat., April ...

and the levels of hazard severity are based on fuel loading, or the amount of flammable material available to burn according ...

Training for a host of different scenarios is a hallmark of firefighting around the globe, and the situation is no different ...

SWIFT crews pass the same training standards as wildland firefighters to respond to wildfires, and perform erosion control, ...

When the rig hit a median barrier, the fuel tank caught fire, Akron firefighters said. A semi driver jumped from his cab as an intense fire burned around the rig on I-77 near Akron. The truck had ...

Just when investors thought it couldn’t get worse, Monday’s brutal selloff was a hold-our-beer day. And while Tuesday is looking a bit better, speculation on whether stocks have bottomed ...

The training focused on enhancing firefighter safety and interoperability during a simulated wildland fire. Firefighters battled the simulated blaze while navigating the complexities of ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released new fire-hazard severity maps Monday that added thousands of acres within the purview of local fire departments across ...