Soldiers assigned to the 14th Brigade Engineer Battalion, Rugged Team 5, stand atop a mountain side while conducting mop-up operations at the August Complex wildfire in Mendocino National Forest, ...

CHEYENNE—A $5.1 million investment that would create the first two ground-based professional wildland firefighting teams in Wyoming history is gaining momentum in the statehouse. On Monday, the ...

The prescribed burn that firefighters recently conducted outside Molina might seem like a rural location to most people, but for an expert Grand Junction wildland fire crew that was involved, rural is ...

At the end of the 2020 fire season, Rincon, CA, Fire Department (RFD) Fire Chief Ed Hadfield chose to engage in an area of wildland firefighting that previously was untapped by the RFD. With members ...

For the past 30 years, Yellowstone National Park has employed a “light, fast, flexible” team of seven to 10 firefighters known as a wildland fire module.

If you’re fortunate to live in a community where the fire season doesn’t last all year (as it’s been declared to do in parts of Texas and California), you may tend to lose focus on wildland/urban ...

BUFFALO — If the U.S. Congress doesn’t pass new legislation to make permanent pay increases for federal wildland firefighters, many could face a major drop in pay by the end of September, according to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma National Guard firefighters and aviation crews recently completed wildfire suppression operations across the state after dry, windy conditions sparked multiple fires in ...