An assistant director of fire analytics for the U.S. Forest Service emphasized that supporting firefighters with accurate science and mapping is just as critical as the physical effort of battling ...

PAYSON, Ariz. — Crews are battling the Horton Fire, which is burning in Horton Creek Canyon, which is in the Tonto National Forest near Kohls Ranch, northeast of Payson.

“They were calling some of our local firefighters, saying that there was a fire report just above the M with an active and visible flame link,” Lewellen said. “I was a little surprised at first ...

Gov. Tina Kotek on Friday signed Senate Bill 5801, passed in Thursday’s legislative special session, that allocates $218 million to the Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal to pay ...

About a dozen uniformed firefighters were ... to allocate more money toward fighting fires so lawmakers don’t find themselves ...

Open fires are prohibited in Napier and Hastings in an order made just hours before a hillside blaze which went right to the ...

C-PTPA, with Chief Fire Warden Kane Steinbruecker, recently lead a 20-acre fire prevention and hazardous fuels reduction plan ...

As a child, I was pretty sure I would grow up to be a fireman.  I think most kids, at one time or another, think about becoming firemen when they grow up.  As life would have it, I never became a ...

"It's been dry. The way that fire spread with the wind is, I would say, normal because of the conditions, but not normal because of the time of year." ...

To combat the wildfire threat, the BLM is conducting aerial herbicide dispersals to help control the cheatgrass and create fire breaks.

Bob Fernandez thought he'd see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old in August 1941. Four months later he found himself fighting at Pearl Harbor.

Cancel anytime. Firefighters from Gretna and other area communities put out a field fire Sunday on land belonging to Vala's Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard. Several area fire departments ...