Oakland's $129.8 million budget deficit could eradicate up to 30% of its firefighting capacity, depleting a strapped department already stretched thin by station closures, according to sources on ...

Norwich — Tracy Montoya, who has been chief of the City of Norwich fire service for the past six years, expects to retire Feb. 21 and will train his successor, not yet named.

A family of six, including three children, died this week in a house fire near the Saint Lawrence River in Upstate New York. The fast-moving blaze occurred at a single-family home just before 10 p ...

Cyndi Gallagher, Tracy Huth and Adam Soldati were named finalists ... Huth spent 11 years as the head coach of Oakland University’s women’s swimming and diving program before transitioning ...

Nationally, fire departments staffed mostly or entirely by full-time employees, rather than volunteers, have ranged from 1.54 to 1.81 career firefighters per 1,000 people, and 0.84 to 1.30 in ...

(TNS) — The devastating fires that continue to burn in Los Angeles and rank among California’s deadliest and most destructive in history exposed long-festering complaints that the city fire ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that were racing through the area, pushing a vast pall of smoke and dangerous embers ahead of the flames -- sparking fears that it could ...

The latest blaze - dubbed the Hughes Fire - started late on Wednesday morning near Lake Castaic, around 40 miles from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that devastated parts of LA earlier this month.

The Hughes Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres Wednesday around the Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County on Wednesday continuing a devastating wave of Southern California wildfires fueled by dry ...

Red flag warnings have once again been issued across Southern California, with National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists warning of windy conditions that are ideal for rapid fire spread.

The Hughes Fire has spread to over 8,000 acres in Los Angeles County's Castaic area on Wednesday as dry vegetation and brutal Santa Ana winds continue to boost fire conditions across Southern ...