Fuel treatments used on the forest near the Schneider Springs Fire helped firefighters contain the blaze and hold lines, fire incident commander Rob Allen said at a news conference Thursday. The fire ...

Over the past several years, many trade publications, blogs and manuals have emphasized the importance of responder positioning in relation to hydraulic tools and tactics on the extrication scene.

With today’s residential fires burning faster and more unpredictably due to the presence of more flammable furnishings and construction materials, the FDNY wanted answers on how to update tactics to ...

DAYTON — With more Ohio drivers buying electric vehicles (EVs) firefighters across the state are learning new tactics to battle fires and other hazards caused by lithium-ion batteries. EV fires were ...

Water application by firefighters is the foundation of firefighting. The American fire service has used water as the primary extinguishing agent since the beginning of bucket brigades, such as ...

Augusta Fire officials are adapting their emergency response procedures as a section of Broad Street remains closed for construction over the next three weeks.

Arnell Dorsett says firefighters could have saved her Aliquippa home this weekend, but they didn't. Was the situation really that cut and dried? Dorsett, the sister-in-law of former NFL star Tony ...

DENVER – Colorado will begin a new strategy for fighting wildfires in the coming weeks, deploying aircraft designed to pinpoint the location of blazes quicker after the first sighting of smoke with ...

Oregon utilities shut down power to tens of thousands of customers on Friday as dry easterly winds swept into the region in the hopes that it would lessen the risk of wildfires in extremely dry and ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — With the cold weather, comes more fires. The National Fire Protection Association says house fires occur more in the winter than in any other season. For firefighters, every second ...

The energy was coming from the Robert fire in 2003. That was the biggest of six fires that year, which in total burned 13% of Glacier National Park. The beginning of the 21st century was the ...