Last month, we discussed using LCES (Lookouts, Communication, Escape routes and Safety zones) combined with making a fire behavior prediction to determine whether firefighters could commit to protect ...

Listen as several fire officers talk about wildland and urban interface firefighting operations. Guests include Assistant Fire Chief Brian Crandall and Captain John Culbertson of the Central Valley ...

As concern for life and property protection in the wildland/urban interface (WUI) has grown, so too has the number of proposed ways to enact this protection. Various agencies, from the fire service to ...

BOISE — The maximum surcharge on structures on private forest land in Idaho would more than double if the legislature passes House Bill 511, which addresses fire protection in increasingly populated ...

To prevent structures from catching fire during wildfire events. To prevent structure fires from spreading and causing ...

An anonymous firefighter, with over a decade of experience, spoke exclusively to Action News Jax. The veteran responder ...

SACRAMENTO — Some groundbreaking fire protection ideas are being unveiled in Sacramento this week at a wildland firefighting conference. Experts from across the country are talking about ways to help ...

A leading standard-setting organization has begun efforts to develop a universal kit of personal protective equipment for ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A structure fire sparked a wildland fire in the Allenspark area near mile marker 10 of Highway 7 on Monday afternoon. Just after 2 p.m. on Monday, the Allenspark Fire Protection ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Landowners in Montana are not paying their fair share of wildfire costs to the tune of at least ...

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (CBS4)- Firefighters rushed to battle a structure fire and a wildland fire in Crested Butte on Wednesday. The Crested Butte Fire Protection District said it was a complicated ...