You're a hotshot working to contain a wildfire. The conflagration jumps the fire line, forcing your crew to flee using pre-determined escape routes. At the start of the day, the crew boss estimated ...

Fall fire season is fast approaching in West Virginia. It begins Oct. 1 (though the ongoing drought has made conditions dangerous already). This will be the first season during which employees of the ...

"One of the fundamental questions in firefighter safety is mobility," commented Mickey Campbell from the University of Utah. ...

Controlled burns, collaborative efforts between agencies, ecosystem restoration and less fire-prone developments are all key ...

About 250 Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 students waited outside of the Broadmoor World Arena while school staff ...

Firefighters battled a wildland blaze in Sonoma County on Sunday but said they were making progress against the fast-expanding flames. The Cougar Fire had consumed 40 acres as of 2:23 p.m. on ...

Separate from that investigation into the official cause, the state hired the Fire Safety Research Institute ... extreme weather conditions across both wildland and urban conditions—as the ...

The Lahaina wildfire that killed at least 102 people and destroyed more than 2,000 buildings did not stem from a single cause ...

It was 20 years ago Thursday, Sept. 12, that Columbia Helitack firefighter Eva Marie Schicke, age 23, suffered fatal injuries in a burnover while fighting the Tuolumne Fire deep in the Tuolumne ...

The initial findings have been released from the NTSB investigation into August's Tesla semi-truck fire that shut down ...

The report describes a series of policy mishaps regarding vegetation management, congested roadways, a lack of planning from ...

"Obviously, we constantly think about all the potential safety risks to the district, and wildland fire kept coming to the top," D-12 Superintendent David Peak said. Peak added that the ...