Firefighting

As wildfires devastated communities in southern California over the past three weeks, an unknown number of highly combustible lithium-ion batteries found in everything from Apple AirPods to Tesla Cybe...

The couple was detained on Jan. 18 after a police patrol unit driving through the Palisades Fire area with fire personnel came upon a “fire truck that did not appear to be legitimate,” the sheriff’s d...

"A Oregon vineyard and olive mill turned wine damaged by wildfire smoke into a new product and expressed their gratitude to the people who saved their business by giving some of the proceeds to Dayton...

Meteorologists, whether in an office or near a wildfire, say it’s been an incredibly busy summer tracking and forecasting the wildfires across Oregon. LTC Eugene Chu Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen MAJ Ken Landgren ...

George C. Hale served as the Chief of the Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department, for 31 years. At the end of the 19th century, he revolutionized firefighting with his more than 60 patented inventions,...

James “Jimmy” Walker took the reigns of the Independence Fire Department in late June after working as the deputy fire chief in Kansas City.

 

Walker spoke to KCTV5 the day after the Fourth of July and ...

Firefighters battling the Dixie Fire have also been facing a second enemy: a serial arsonist who went on a spree of setting fires in July and August — and who sought to trap fire crews with his fires,...

A 37-year-old US Navy SEAL who's served four combat tours was rejected by the New York City Fire Department for being too old. Now other fire departments across the country have reached out to let him...

Female firefighters from across Oregon and Washington came together in Sherwood, Oregon, this weekend to deliver a message to young women: Yes, you could have a career as a firefighter.

 

Portland Metro...

Fire departments across Oregon are facing staffing shortages as veteran firefighters retire and volunteer numbers drop. But over the last two years, the Oregon Fire Apprenticeship program has been hel...

Captain Gordon Wolcott with the Seattle Fire Department knows retirement is around the corner. Before that, he had one job he did not want to miss — pinning a firefighter badge on his daughter, Raechel Ehlers.

 

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When Raymond Huesties first became a firefighter for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Eastern Oregon, he didn’t really have much of a choice.

 

“My boss gave me a hard hat a...

A changing climate looks poised to increase wildfire conditions significantly. That would compound other growing risks, such as the aggressive spread of eastern red cedars.
A changing climate may bring...

For decades, Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane trained firefighters with a chemical based fire suppression foam. And, like any substance would, that foam seeped into the ground around the base, an...

When Navy Petty Officer Matthew Willman first heard he'd be going to San Francisco for Fleet Week, he imagined nights on the town and drinking like, well, a sailor.

 

He thought he knew the drill. Inste...

San Franciscans paid their respects starting early Wednesday morning to honor the late U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who died last week at age 90.

 

Outside City Hall, a large American flag hung beside...

Grazing goats are becoming a common sight in Los Angeles – can this ancient solution to wildfires really prevent ever bigger, fiercer blazes?

 

It's a typical Los Angeles scene: the Pacific Ocean sparkl...