Women in the federal wildland firefighting corps are organizing so they don't have to give up their often arduous, itinerant jobs when they have kids, and can continue climbing their chosen career ...

Bryan Gallagher, incident commander and a state DEC forest ranger, said each wildland firefighter ... Dariel was as committed and courageous as the men and women out there on the fire line today.” ...

Dariel Vasquez was killed while battling a massive 2,000-acre forest fire in Sterling Forest, not far from the New Jersey border, on Saturday, authorities announced.

The Hudson Valley has been placed under a level 2 drought watch by the NYSDEC and a red flag wildfire watch by the National ...

fire chief Stewart Beckford said efforts are being made to accommodate more women in the profession. He said there are ongoing efforts to address structural limitations that are now a barrier to ...

In 2022, Congress eased access for wildland firefighters to workers’ compensation for a number of serious diseases. But ...

Two women were killed early Thursday in a car crash on Detroit's east side, police said. Officers were called at about 3:15 a ...

Noah Freedman is a vice-president of OPSEU, representing the crews that battle forest fires. Freedman and fellow firefighter and investigator Mark Belanger were joined at Queen's Park by two NDP ...

The Chengwatana State Forest north of the Twin Cities reopened Friday, after rain and snow helped officials extinguish a fire that had been burning there for about two weeks. The Evergreen Forest ...

Firefighters are in “mop-up operations” for an active brush fire that closed Rocky Neck State Park on Saturday in East Lyme, ...

As fire season begins to wrap up in much of the Western U.S., women who fight fires for the U.S. Forest Service are looking ahead. Women only make up 13% of the service's fire positions ...