Two U.S. senators are pushing to consolidate the nation’s wildland firefighting force into a single agency. Republican Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana and Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded. Jenn McCarthy has worked as ...

Montana's new U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy this week introduced a bill that aims to consolidate federal wildland firefighting resources, currently spread across several agencies, into one national ...

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 ...

With wildfires increasing in frequency and severity across Canada ? impacting our health, economies, communities and wildlife ? the Governments of Canada and New Brunswick are supporting Canadians ...

Federal firefighters are an essential part of the nation’s firefighting capability. The Department of the Interior employed 5,780 federal wildland fire personnel in 2024, while the US Forest ...

The Prescott National Forest and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management responded at 3 p.m., Monday Feb. 10, to a wildfire south of Mayer, near Pine Flats off Forest Road 67 for a 400-acre ...

Given the events in Southern California earlier this month it is difficult to pick any other topic to discuss. The Eaton Fire ...

(CNN) — The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters. The freeze comes at a critical time, when ...