The United States Department of the Interior on Monday officially announced the launch of the “U.S. Wildland Fire Service,” an effort by the department to unify the wildfire-fighting resources of ...

The federal government will combine its wildland firefighting operations within the Interior Department into a single new agency, dubbed the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, according to memos released ...

An executive order signed earlier this month by President Donald Trump would look to “consolidate” five federal wildland fire agencies into one. The U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Wildfire activity is on the upswing in Colorado and across the U.S., and state firefighting and incident management agencies ...

I had a rewarding and successful wildland fire and fuels management career, and I feel the ultimate opportunity for giving back is in helping to develop the next generation of wildland fire and ...

Wildland training academies help prepare firefighters-in-training for deployment in Arizona and possibly across the West. Fire agencies from cities and other agencies send firefighters to academies ...

Wildland firefighters are willing to wear respirators and other protective breathing equipment despite concerns the devices could hinder their ability to fight fires safely, according to new research ...

On Monday, April 21, Tuesday, April 22, and Thursday, April 24, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Monterey Fire Department, along with partner agencies, will be conducting the annual wildland refresher ...

Kelly Ramsey’s literary memoir details her “circuitous” journey from a poet to being the only woman on an elite hotshot firefighting crew. In the provided photo, author Kelly Ramsey stands in the ...

Santa Barbara–based firefighter Jorge Hurtado brings the world of wildland firefighting to life for kids with his Sparky the Brave Wildland Firefighter series. With two previous books about the ...

This spring marks 31 years since the local publication of the first Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG) in 1994 and 26 years since it became a National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) interagency ...

You probably don’t know much about the very real health risks of the job. Now, it’s getting harder for anyone to know. You probably don’t see wildland firefighters on the job because they usually work ...