(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Over 100 firefighters from 12 fire agencies across El Paso and Teller counties gathered to conduct a fire training field day on Saturday, March 7, to certify over 60 new wildland ...

Firefighters have plenty of ways to battle the spread of flames, but some first responders have a different approach to wildfire response. A smokejumper is a unique type of wildland firefighter ...

Albuquerque Fire Rescue gears up for wildfire season with new equipment and training, enhancing response capabilities in ...

Officials at the agency knew about the use of potentially dangerous “forever chemicals” in protective gear years before ...

Wildland firefighters are willing to wear respirators and other protective breathing equipment despite concerns the devices could hinder their ability to fight fires safely, according to new research ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Wildland fire season is already starting, and fire crews are getting trained up. Thursday, the ...

Immigration attorneys are demanding federal officials release a wildland firefighter arrested last month on the Olympic Peninsula. Lawyers for the Portland-based Innovation Law Lab and the Northwest ...

The funding vote for this fiscal year concerned $125,000 for the department’s forest and range fire protection program, which ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have been able to ...

Shane Del Grosso spent some 30 summers crossing smoke-shrouded mountains and forests to fight increasingly devastating wildfires in the U.S. West. Toward the end, his skills and experience propelled ...