NEW YORK — Governor Kathy Hochul has announced New York’s Volunteer Firefighter Training Stipend program is being expanded to reimburse costs related to Basic Wildland Fire Suppression for ...

Sep. 5—As the U.S. Forest Service makes cuts that threaten to hobble federal firefighting capabilities, California is entering into a pact with other western states and parts of Canada to beef up ...

The federal government will combine its wildland firefighting operations within the Interior Department into a single new agency, dubbed the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, according to memos released ...

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 ...

The Trump Administration is proposing to consolidate wildfire fighting forces from across the federal government into a single agency. President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal outlines plans to ...