Firefighters

Watch the moment a fireman in Lititz, Pa., saved a dog from a burning barn on Saturday night.

The two-story facility sits on a massive steel float and will begin operating in the spring of 2021.

On May 16, 11 firefighters were seriously injured during one of the most intense and dangerous fires in the history of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

This summer, as wildfires raged and families hurried away from their homes, a small group of firefighters raced toward neighborhoods. Insurance companies sent them.

Do you have a private firefighter on stand-by watching your home right now? Most of us will say, “no.” But, Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura found the answer increasingly is, “yes,” and you might not even know it.

At least 100 firefighters from across Mexico arrived in California on Wednesday to assist in fighting the forest fires.

Oakland police and firefighters Thursday morning rescued a driver who became trapped inside a burning van while it was still in motion on a city street, according to the police department.

As fires break out in northern Brazil, a team of just five firefighters is being asked to cover more than 32,000 square miles of terrain.

Federal firefighter units tasked with putting out some of the nation’s biggest wildfires are grappling with the reality of a fire season coinciding with a pandemic, NBC News reports. As historic wildfires have spread through much of the West this summer, firefighters organized within the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service are testing positive...

Meet Kerith — a certified crisis response therapy dog offering comfort and support to firefighters in California.

Hank Hanson and his wife narrowly escaped a raging wildfire in California

More than 12,000 firefighters aided by helicopters and air tankers on Friday battled wildfires throughout California as reinforcements began to arrive

A gas explosion in a Baltimore neighborhood killed a woman, left others seriously hurt and flattened three homes, firefighters said.

The three American firefighters who were killed when the aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in Australia have been identified by their employer

Three Americans died Thursday when their aerial water tanker crashed as they were fighting fires in southeastern Australia.

U.S. officials said Tuesday they’re planning to send at least another 100 firefighters to Australia to join 159 already in the country battling wildfires that have killed 25 people and destroyed 2,000 homes.

When firefighters Matt Gomes and Mike Perez stopped to replace an American Flag that had fallen off of a Windsor home during Kincade Fire evacuations in October, they had no idea that their simple gesture would be captured on a neighbor’s Ring video and turn into a story of hope that would inspire thousands.

Over a month after NBC Bay Area first reported a heartwarming story of two firefighters who stopped to replace a fallen American flag in Windsor during the Kincade fire, the two men have been identified. Matt Gomes and Mike Perez say they’re surprised and touched that their act has inspired so many.

Home surveillance video captures firefighters replacing a fallen flag to a veteran’s home during the Kincade Fire evacuation in Windsor. [Jason Frazee/Ring]

A home surveillance video showing two firefighters stop to replace a flag that had fallen from the home of a veteran during Kincade Fire evacuations brought hope to residents as they struggled to gather information on the status of their neighborhood.