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.

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 ...

A fire chief was shot dead after trying to get help for a couple who had hit a deer in Alabama. According to officials in Chambers County, Chief James Bartholomew "Bart" Cauthen, 54, went to the ...

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 ...