KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - Firefighters from East Texas and other states gathered in Kilgore today to complete a course teaching them the basics of wildland firefighting. Participants learned about the ...

The South Fork Forest Camp is underway, but the campers will not be gathering to sing songs. That's because the participants are Oregon inmates. After learning the keys to wildland firefighting, they ...

Three firefighters – Emily Barker, 38; Nick Hutcherson, 27; and Sydney Watson, 27 – died battling a wildfire in Colorado.

SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- On a sunny weekday morning, along the quiet Kings River, Heartland High School students hopped out of a van, grabbed their gear, gloved up and adjusted their helmets to head ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

Wildland firefighters face extreme conditions. For those who identify as LGBTQ, there are challenges beyond the fireline.

While Mikaela Balkind was working on her degree at the University of Washington in 2018, she was looking for a way to bridge her two interests in natural resource management and climate science. So ...

As cool weather arrives and the number of U.S. wildfires declines, wildland firefighters who have spent months working in the heat and smoke are able to take a much-needed break. But for many of them, ...

"I had a basic understanding of the role of a wildland firefighter, but going through this training, I now know there is so much more to the job than most people realize—not only the scope of the work ...