To stay relevant, firefighters must see themselves as career-long students. Learning should not stop at graduation from the recruit academy; instead, graduation marks the beginning of a firefighter’s ...

As anyone in the fire service can attest, spending enough time on the job brings incredibly diverse experiences. After nearly two decades, I had an eerie experience that older firefighters I learned ...

Communication is crucial in regard to fires. Communication to occupants that there’s a fire is more critical than ever based on today’s fire growth rate and less time to evacuate. The smoke that’s ...

Greer Fire calls for several firefighting tactics, agencies The Greer Fire, burning in Apache County, was called "challenging" by fire officials on Thursday night. It's required several firefighting ...

At the command post for the Friars Fire in Mission Valley, San Diego Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Craig Newell showed Mayor Todd Gloria how the fire department mapped out evacuations for dozens of ...

A firefighting training program designed primarily for women hopes to diversify the industry and to attract more people to firefighting overall. Climate change is putting a growing number of people at ...

Volunteer firefighting in New York State developed out of community necessity and neighborly cooperation. In the colonial and early national periods, towns and villages had no organized public safety ...