The contract between Orange County Fire Authority, Southern California Edison and several other local fire departments that ...

Wildfires can start anywhere, anytime, but usually happen during the hotter, drier months. What makes them dangerous is how fast flames travel — up to 14 miles an hour. That's why wildfires can cover ...

Firefighting maintenance increases downtime, costs, and stress while masking deeper reliability and planning issues. Reactive ...

The current firefighting protective ensemble is heavy, thick, multilayered, and it exacerbates the challenge of thermoregulation due to its limited permeability and insulative properties. A person's ...

A new soy-based firefighting foam offers a potential alternative for firefighters across the country who have long relied on ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency, a move some former federal officials warn could increase the risk of ...

We all pass large or complex buildings in our coverage area and look at them from the perspective of a firefighter, imagining what could go wrong. But then we also might think, “That building has a ...

The new chief of the Paul Smiths-Gabriels Volunteer Fire Department is young for a chief — 27 years old — but he’s been a ...

Navy researchers working on PFAS-free firefighting foams with no health risk Testing is still at a small scale, but U.S. Navy researchers are encouraged by their work to develop new firefighting foams ...

On Dec. 16, Doug Farris officially retired, ending a remarkable 51-year run with the Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department.

The history of firefighting in America can be traced all the way back to Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Founded in 1607 by colonists from the London Company, ...