A freeze on the hiring and onboarding of thousands of federal firefighters could have deadly consequences as the national ...

BEIJING -- China's first large-scale intelligent forest fire rescue training facility has been delivered recently to the National Southwest Regional Emergency Rescue Center, marking a breakthrough in ...

Even as I urged them to leave, from my home in the Mojave Desert, I was moved by a different compulsion: to get in my car, report to work and rush, via fire engine or helicopter, toward the fires. It ...

HO CHI MINH – Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are tightening measures to prevent forest fires in the ongoing dry season. The delta, which comprises 12 provinces and Cần Thơ City, has many ...

MAFFS, or Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems, transforms a military transport into an aerial firefighter. In an interview with Simple Flying, David Sarnoff, the Executive Director for the MAFFS ...

First, the fire must be discovered. Often wildfires are reported by people seeing smoke. That hasn’t changed, but other ways fires are spotted have evolved. In the early part of the 20th century, the ...

“Personal Protective Equipment is important ... Meanwhile, the Standard Operating Procedure or SOP for Forest Fire Fighting in Thimphu for the Interagency Forest Fire Coordinating Group, IFFCG ...

Now, alongside their partners, scientists unveiled some of the tools they’ve developed to tackle the harmful algal blooms. “The state of Florida is leading in the U.S. and indeed leading in ...

courtesy of Charlie Hawes Firefighter Charlie Hawes was on day four of his 96-hour shift when the Eaton Fire broke out near his Altadena home on Tuesday, Jan. 7. He was just about to grab dinner ...

The military is joining local emergency services in fighting forest fires whenever hotspots are found, he said. Police and other agencies have been tasked with boosting public awareness to prevent ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. Sign up View from eastern Chula Vista of southern end of Border 2 fire Saturday. (Photo by Chris Stone ...