The fire danger has also prompted fire crews across the state to prepare. That prep work includes contacting other states to ask if they can help. There is also massive coordination in the state to ...

Governor Laura Kelly issued a state of disaster emergency proclamation Thursday morning due to increased fire weather conditions lasting throughout the weekend.

Firefighters from Sedgwick and Butler counties had to put out a grass fire northeast of Wichita Monday afternoon.

Two sheds, a tree row and several brush piles burned in a fire that lasted into the early morning southwest of Hutchinson.

Courtesy photo Wichita Fire Department Wichita firefighters had ... during his seven-plus years of working at newspapers in Kansas. He finished his MBA at Wichita State University in spring ...

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Crews are battling a grass fire in northwest Kansas. The fire is located in ... Fifteen units representing five agencies, including the Wichita Fire Department and Sedgwick County Fire District ...

The combination of low humidity and high winds is driving up the fire danger across the state. Two departments battled one grass fire in Butler County, which consumed more than 50 acres of land this ...

Hughes joined the Wichita Falls Fire Department in 1984 and has served as a firefighter, fire equipment operator, lieutenant, captain, battalion chief and interim chief on two occasions.