Three federal wildland firefighters assigned to Rifle Helitack died after fire burned over their deployed shelters during initial attack on the Knowles Fire in Mesa County, Colorado. Two other crew ...

In Record US Wildfire Season, Firefighter Entrapments Hit 20-Year High By Andrew Hay Aug 13 (Reuters) - U.S. firefighting personnel are being overrun by wildfires at the highest rate in two decades, ...

On July 28, 1995, Joe Stear was working in the back of his welding shop, Kuna Machine Shop, on Kuna’s Main Street, when he saw a lightning strike in the middle of the desert south of town. Then he saw ...

Storm King Mountain continues to cast a shadow on wildland firefighting nearly eight years after a blowup on the mountain near Glenwood Springs claimed the lives of 14 firefighters, according to a ...

A U.S. Forest Service Honor Memorial Service will be held Wednesday for Kaitlynn “KK” Gallagher, a 24-year-old wildland ...

As wildland fires tore across western Kansas in February, Tech. Sgt. Chase Garza, an airman assigned to the 184th Wing, Kansas Air National Guard, deployed as a crew chief to Garden City and Liberal ...