Firefighters

A strike team composed of firefighters from Alameda County and the cities of Oakland, Fremont and Hayward returned Saturday after two weeks battling the massive Bootleg Fire in Oregon.

Out-of-state crews are heading to Montana to battle a blaze that injured five firefighters as the West struggles with a series of wildfires that have ravaged rural lands and destroyed homes

The Biden administration says it is hiring more federal firefighters — and immediately raising their pay — as officials ramp up response efforts in the face of a severe drought that’s setting the stage for another destructive summer of intense wildfires across the West

Firefighters are now facing more fires and more toxic smoke than ever. There is now some new evidence of more poisons in the air they breathe and even in the gear they wear. Terry McSweeney reports.

At least 21 people are hurt as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle an 8-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said the state will hire nearly 1,400 additional firefighters as an unusually dry winter stokes fears of another devastating wildfire season.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said the state will hire nearly 1,400 additional firefighters as an unusually dry winter stokes fears of another devastating wildfire season.

A fire broke out early Tuesday morning at a Rockland County, N.Y. nursing home, killing one resident and leaving a firefighter missing and over one hundred other residents displaced.

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