CHARLESTON — During a training session Saturday morning, new volunteer firefighter Avery Gee took the lead position on a fire hose as she and her crew entered a burning house. The Mattoon ...

An off-duty city firefighter who once bragged that it took seven cops to arrest him during a 2011 street party was busted again Sunday and charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.

Experience and training. Firefighters who have experience with fires that are in vacant residences and buildings might be more comfortable making quick decisions about when to search and when to ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A contingent of 72 Mexican firefighters received a briefing from U.S. fire officials on Monday alongside their American counterparts before heading out to help ...

Arrests are soaring in fire-ravaged Los Angeles County, mainly for looting — with one guy caught dressed as a firefighter while stealing from a home — prompting more National Guard reinforcements.

"We were flowing an amount of water that the system couldn't hold," he added, "just because of the amount of water these firefighters were utilizing." Several personalities took to social media ...

With wildfires fires ravaging Los Angeles, the firefighter-turned-senator from Montana wants to fight bureaucracy. Less than a week into his new job, Montana Republican Tim Sheehy is finding ...

And, as a retired U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighter and manager, I probably look at the situation a little differently from the average citizen. My heart breaks for those who have had to ...

The program is 18 months long and entails an orientation and basic training phase, months of firefighter and more advanced training and then a 12-month crew assignment. The program also includes ...

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“We need to upgrade facilities at the firefighters’ training center, improve the skills of firefighters, and ensure that they have sufficient and upgraded firefighting equipment and trucks. We ...

When devastating wildfires erupted across Los Angeles County this week, David Torgerson’s team of firefighters went to work. The thousands of city, county and state firefighters dispatched to ...