Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

Cherryhill Township Volunteer Fire Company has received grant funding from the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies to purchase a new large diameter hose intake relief valve for Engine 241 and ...

Reading the roof of a fire building starts as the apparatus nears the incident, including assessment of the roof's pitch and covering, of ventilation indicators, and of dead loads and structural ...

Over the decades, firefighters have adopted new tools, put on ever-more sophisticated protective clothing, and innovated new ways ways to combat the unpredictable dangers of the fireground. Despite ...

ORANGE BEACH, Fla. -- Orange Beach Fire Rescue is expanding how it trains firefighters for some of the most dangerous ...

ALFRED, Maine — Firefighters dressed in boots and heavy protective gear made their way up five stories and into the steel drill tower, and they made it look easy. After about 20 minutes, heavy black ...