Participants learned about the specifics of wildland firefighting as well as how to dig a fireline and how best to rescue a downed firefighter when in the wilderness.

MISSOULA — The Northern Region of the USDA Forest Service is hiring permanent wildland firefighters for the 2025 fire year ...

Several state agencies got a bird's eye view Thursday morning to practice skills on fighting wildfires from above.

“I think it would be a travesty for the NFR to stop enrolling firefighters,” the official said. Recent research found that wildland firefighters are exposed to 31 carcinogens on the fireline.

The vast majority – 88.4% – had experience as structure firefighters, and 17.5% had experience as wildland firefighters, a subset of the firefighting workforce where the cancer risk is likely least ...

The vast majority – 88.4% – had experience as structure firefighters, and 17.5% had experience as wildland firefighters, a subset of the firefighting workforce where the cancer risk is likely ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A firefighter with the Georgetown Fire Department died Friday morning after a crash on US-29, west of Wolf Ranch Parkway, according to a press release from the city of Georgetown.

NBC News/YouTube The Florida firefighter who drove a fire truck onto railroad tracks, resulting in a collision with a high-speed train that injured 15 people, has been fired. Following a ...

THIS IS KCRA THREE NEWS AT 11. WE’RE FOLLOWING DEVELOPING NEWS TONIGHT. A SACRAMENTO CITY FIREFIGHTER ARRESTED IN HIS FIRE STATION ON CHARGES OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A CHILD. THANK YOU FOR ...

After local firefighters received a call last month for a potential imminent baby delivery, firefighter-paramedic Kyle Post and crew arrived at a house in Folsom. The Folsom Fire Department said ...

"We look at whats burning and what we want to protect," said Tyler Hirschfeld, wildland captain with Hurricane Valley Fire. "Sometimes, in open fields, we let it burn naturally. But near homes ...