Dangerous, frontline firefighting jobs may get a bit safer thanks to new heat-sensing sensors designed by NASA. The sensors ...

Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — 73 volunteer fire departments across the state, including two dozen in Central Illinois, are ...

With wildfire season coming soon, NASA researchers are attempting to give firefighters additional safety measures through low-cost thermal sensors that are installed on fire bulldozers. These sensors ...

The state program helps local emergency agencies cover equipment needs that can be difficult to fund through local revenue ...

In this file photo taken Feb. 27, 2024, volunteers from six area fire departments and the U.S. Forestry Service help extinguish a grass fire that destroyed two ...

SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - Firefighters in Smith County are using specialized dozers equipped with plows and blades to help fight fires. Battalion Chief Raymond Murillo of Smith County Emergency ...

One set of equipment for a single firefighter can cost more than $6,000.

News outlets around the world are diligently covering the destruction caused by the deadly wildfires afflicting much of Southern California at the moment. Throughout this horrific and ongoing tragedy ...