FOREST, Va. (WSET) — At a firefighter training event in Forest Sunday, the goal was simple: prepare for dangerous situations, to be ready for the real thing. The Forest Fire Department held their ...

WATERLOO - Talk about a hot spot. On the first day of Steve Weliver's job shadowing with the United States Fire Service, 170 wildfires sprang up in Texas and torched 127,000 acres. Overhead, aircraft ...

Over the weekend, U.S. Forest Service crews took to the skies above Grants Pass for a round of mandatory “short haul” ...

Cal Fire and U.S. Forest Service crews took part in an annual training program to learn how to coordinate aerial attacks on wildfires as California braces for another fire season. From lessons high in ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas A&M Forest Service awarded $164 million in grants to volunteer fire departments ...

PORTLAND -- The Oregon National Guard plans to activate more than 300 Guard members for forest fire training at three sites in Oregon so they can be used if needed to back up regular contract crews.

There are 222 local fire departments in Wisconsin that will receive a total of $564,173 in grants this year for equipment, prevention and training to enhance their forest fire protection and ...