On Sept. 14, 1857, Henry Clay Sexton became St. Louis¹ first fire chief (formally, "chief engineer") at a salary of $1,000. He had 30 employees and three steam fire engines.

No extra engines had been placed in the Palisades, where the fire broke out about 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, officials said. The department pre-positioned nine engines to the San Fernando Valley and ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Fire fatalities in Alabama are trending downward, according to State Fire Marshal Scott Pilgreen, who says, while this is good news, there is still work to be done because one ...

NASA scientists were recently able to alert emergency services in Castleberry to a 120-acre field fire after they spotted it on a large imaging spectrometer. The sensor—AVIRIS-3—was flying on ...