An FVR90 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) lifts off from the Monterey Bay Academy Airport near Watsonville, California, during ...

Prescribed Fire Fest combines education and fun activities to showcase how fire is used in land conservation on January 25 at Edward Medard Conservation Park.

California Sen. Alex Padilla introduced several bills to increase firefighter pay, expand FEMA funding and include affordable housing as part of disaster response.

Alaska rural fire departments have been awarded $306,292 in funding to improve firefighting capabilities. The grant will help ...

I’m also married to a wildland firefighter, and we have two children. His work is unpredictable and dangerous. For him and many wildland firefighters like him, the stress is compounded by the ...

That’s the order in which wildland firefighters prioritize ... This includes using hand tools to remove vegetation in order to create fire breaks as well as indirectly attacking the fire to ...

equipment and resources including bulldozers, water tenders, fire engines, high-value structures, medical evacuation rescue and makeshift water resources. “Based on feedback from wildland ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban interface.