The committee will examine how research on experimental fires can be improved to strengthen fire and smoke models for prescribed burns. The committee will: Identify relevant agency research projects ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — For Soldiers assigned to the Wyoming National Guard’s Training Center Command, understanding how a wildfire moves can mean the difference between a controlled response and a dangerous ...

As Southern California braces for its hottest weather of the summer, a new firefighting crew is stomping through the woods. The city's first full-time and paid wildfire firefighters trained on ...

On July 28, 1995, Joe Stear was working in the back of his welding shop, Kuna Machine Shop, on Kuna’s Main Street, when he saw a lightning strike in the middle of the desert south of town. Then he saw ...

The Southwest Area Incident Management Team 3 assumed command of the Himalaya Road Fire, Aggie Creek Fire and Washington Creek Fire Tuesday morning. The fires were started by lightning on June 19 and ...

Wildfires across the western United States are burning with an intensity that can overwhelm suppression crews, and multiple studies link recent increases in fire weather and burned area to a warming, ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – At the Springer Correctional Center in northern New Mexico, women inmates are getting hands-on training in wildland firefighting. The New Mexico Corrections Department’s recently ...

The Florida Forest Service (FFS) said in a release they responded Thursday with multiple resources along with Putnam County Fire Rescue to a 30-acre wildfire. FFS said the East Bannerville Fire north ...

An executive order signed earlier this month by President Donald Trump would look to “consolidate” five federal wildland fire agencies into one. The U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...