Cook County officials celebrate upgrades at Park Forest Fire Training Site, enhancing firefighter preparedness.

Former and current federal firefighters say they welcome the proposed changes but worry that the wrong respirator or mask ...

A new bipartisan bill in the Senate aims to protect federal wildland firefighters from working long, dangerous shifts with almost no protection from the thick smoke.

ALTURAS, Calif. -- A U.S. Forest Service firefighter from South Dakota has been killed battling one of more than a dozen wildfires raging across California, Forest Service officials said Friday night.

Firefighters with the Mark Twain National Forest Service are battling a 50-acre wildfire south of Cassville, using three Forest Service engines, two dozers, the Mark Twain Veteran Crew, and a ...