McCarthy had accepted a seasonal wildland firefighter position in Alaska ... we cannot afford to diminish the tools at our disposal to fight these fires," he added. In December, a U.S. Forest ...

Training, equipment, and systems are focused on this ... issue with the training of machine learning systems. The wildland fire sector needs to stop being overly distracted by fuel loads ...

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 ...

The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal ...

President Donald Trump's administration is holding up money for wildfire mitigation projects funded through legislation ...

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 ...

Wildland Firefighter and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Charles G. Palmer et. al, 2011, US Forest Services, US Department of Agriculture. Neurodevelopmental Conditions ...

The National Interagency Coordination Center is predicting above normal risk for wildfires in Graham, Greenlee and Cochise ...

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 ...

A blue bag filled with sensory tools developed by an Indiana firefighter is making a big impact in emergency situations. Ben’s Blue Bags, an initiative inspired by 10-year-old Ben Kodicek ...