Chiefs, fire officers, and firefighters alike benefit from a department culture that encourages curiosity, adaptation, and skill mastery. This culture of learning extends beyond formal training ...

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.

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 ...

Firefighters give behind-the-scene look at ... residents in high-risk areas to just leave home — and not wait for formal evacuation orders — if they sense danger. That’s exactly what Tim ...

Fire officials advised residents in high-risk areas to just leave home – and not wait for formal evacuation orders – if they sense danger. State Department freezes new funding for nearly all ...

but our firefighters are well trained for this.” The personnel on this team sign up to go under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, a formal agreement between fire departments and the ...

It tore through tall brush before firefighters stopped its progress ... in high-risk areas to just leave home — and not wait for formal evacuation orders — if they sense danger.

The latest started Monday night in a dry riverbed in an agricultural area of Oxnard, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles, and tore through tall brush before firefighters ...