The move toward a formal fire committee has no drawbacks, as far as Johnson is concerned. “I think some [firefighters] are afraid the township will tell us what we can and can’t do.

Incarcerated firefighters play a crucial role in a state where wildfires seemingly get worse every year. But the state’s shifting politics may stymie efforts at reform.

So far, many clues to the origins of the deadly Eaton fire, which started in the area just after 6 p.m. that evening and went ...

Calls for fire service used to trickle into Lancaster County at about 1,200 a year, or 3 per day. That volume has exploded nearly tenfold since the turn of the century, according to Darren Player, the ...

As volunteer fire companies, which make up the overwhelming majority of the state’s departments, have struggled to maintain membership and finances, they have turned more often to the public for ...

A delegation of Israeli firefighting experts spent a week in California helping American crews combat the Palisades inferno, and one member of the team described the experience as an "honor" and ...

It includes firefighters directly contracted with government agencies as well as those who work for insurance companies and directly for rich families and developers. As California faces a future ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) - Firefighters and doctors are worried about the growing evidence of the connection between cancer and firefighter deaths. In some areas, cancer is considered a ...

Thousands of local, Los Angeles-based firefighters are working around the clock on the fire-lines. They have been supported in their efforts by large numbers of fire crews from around the state ...

Downpours in San Diego County, helped firefighters make significant progress against the smaller Border 2 Fire churning through a remote area of the Otay Mountain Wilderness near the U.S.-Mexico ...

BAY VILLAGE, Ohio (WOIO) - Bay Village firefighters rescued a goose who was stuck on the ice at the edge of Lake Erie Monday. A Shift was doing ice rescue training when they said they noticed the ...