After a 31-year career, CAL FIRE Chief Jim McDougald has retired, closing a chapter marked by service, leadership, and ...

The RAND Corporation finds that U.S. wildfire technology is advancing quickly, but innovation stalls because wildfire ...

BOISE, Idaho — After 492 days away from home, wildland firefighter Justin "Riley" Shaw returned to Idaho on Monday, greeted by about 50 family members, friends, firefighters and community members at ...

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Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) Chief Brian Fennessy will retire on January 2, 2026, to become the inaugural Director of the newly established United States Wildland Fire Service (USWFS). The new ...

A dispute over a Trump administration plan to consolidate federal firefighting operations may be close to resolution, in a sign of modest progress toward Senate passage of a major fiscal 2026 spending ...

For decades, federal firefighters have trudged and parachuted into wildfires with only “a bandana and a prayer,” as the saying goes, to protect them from inhaling dangerous toxins. Meanwhile, studies ...

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 ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) —The Deschutes National Forest of the USDA Forest Service said Monday it is now hiring for several seasonal positions, including wildland firefighters and smokejumpers "We are ...

The Department of the Interior has opened applications for the first-ever Director of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a newly created role that will oversee and coordinate the nation’s wildland fire ...

Lawyers for an Oregon wildland firefighter arrested by federal agents while on the job last month are going to court to demand his immediate release, arguing that his detention was an abuse of power.