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

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.

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

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

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

American wildland firefighting today is built on a complex ... More personnel or equipment would not have meant that the Palisades or Eaton fires would have been suppressed in a day or two.

Eagle County is at risk of experiencing a large-scale wildfire. “We’ve always been and we probably always will be,” said Hugh ...

The crew is expected to begin work Monday. California fire managers requested their help for 14 days. A typical daily shift ...

All of the vehicles lost in the fire were insured. “The equipment that was lost predominantly was funded solely from the revenue generated from our wildland program and not our local taxpayer ...

Those teams and equipment are part of the department's wildland firefighting unit. "I've done several deployments on the engines with Denver Fire and a previous department but this one is unique ...

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 ...