Firefighters

President Joe Biden has signed off on giving federal wildland firefighters a hefty raise for the next two fiscal years. The move announced Tuesday affects more than 16,000 firefighters and comes as much of the West braces for a difficult wildfire season. Pay raises for the federal firefighters had been included in last year’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill, but they...

Fire crews in San Francisco have ramped up training ahead of what is expected to be a busy fire season. SFFD’s Lt. Jonathan Baxter discusses with NBC Bay Area what’s in store in the coming months.

Over 1,000 firefighters backed by bulldozers and aircraft battled the largest active wildfire in the U.S. on Saturday after strong winds pushed it across some containment lines and closer to a small city in northern New Mexico.

Many people want to go to Ukraine to help, including two Southern California firefighters who are organizing a group to go overseas. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to one of those firefighters, Eric Hile.

Winston-Salem firefighters warned that chemicals at the site could cause a large explosion.

A Colorado firefighter jumped in to help a dog who’d fallen through ice into a frigid pond.

Baltimore’s fire chief says three firefighters were killed and a fourth was injured when part of a vacant home collapsed while they were battling a blaze

Firefighters in Sicily are digging through rubble in the search for missing people after an explosion apparently caused by a gas leak killed at least three people

It’s the first day on the job for therapy dog Henry, but it’s not his first time around the block. Dogs like Henry provide companionship and comfort, a little normalcy while firefighters are away from home.

At wildfire base camps in California and beyond, therapy dogs and their handlers are providing firefighters with a much-needed distraction from the taxing work they face on the front lines.

At wildfire base camps in California and beyond, therapy dogs and their handlers are providing firefighters with a much-needed distraction from the taxing work they face on the front lines.

The labor movement is torn over vaccine requirements — much like the country as a whole — wanting to both support its political ally in Biden and protect its members against infection but also not wanting to trample their workers’ rights.

Firefighters in Greece battled a large blaze in the Vilia area northwest of Athens as wildfires erupted across the country during its most severe heat wave in decades.

Cellphone footage captured the moment an Alabama man jumped from a burning 25-foot lift into a safety net below.

Fire crews are battling a brush fire along Highway 29, just north of Calistoga.

The Dixie Fire that sparked July 13th has become the 2nd largest wildfire in California’s history.

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.