As peak fire season intensifies, you will be hearing many wildfire-specific terms that you may or may not understand and ...

A vegetation fire burning in the hills east of Templeton threatened structures Saturday evening, prompting an evacuation order for nearby residents.

The next morning, a fire crew that has spent the night mobilising to fight a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) wildfire nearby is redirected to the emerging Thirtymile Fire. Most of the crew is young and ...

The need for well trained wildland firefighters has never been more critical as experts warn of widespread fires this summer.

A wildland fire sparked by a vehicle explosion off of Snowmass Creek Road on Monday afternoon was to be monitored overnight.

No new growth occurred on the Wilder Fire, in northeastern Fergus County, Montana on Tuesday, July 8, with containment of the ...

Wildland fire crews are working 24/7, taking advantage of cooler, wet weather to get the upper hand on the two fires, which have scorched a combined 30,000 acres.

Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley asked for full-time employees to augment a mostly volunteer brush-clearing crew two years ago.

In a memo that has not been previously reported, chief told city fire commissioners that L.A. relied almost entirely on overburdened “hand crews” from other jurisdictions to handle its brush ...

Wildland training academies help prepare firefighters-in-training for deployment in Arizona and possibly across the West. Fire agencies from cities and other agencies send firefighters to ...

Lives on the line: Low pay has US wildland firefighters quitting As wildfires get worse, firefighters are struggling to combat blazes and remain in a job with poor labour conditions.