Republican Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana and Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of California recently introduced a Senate bill that would create the “National Wildland Fire Service.” The bill ...

The U.S. Forest Service employs more than 11,000 people in its wildland fire program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture website, and historically has had a hard time hiring and retai ...

11, due to a wildland fire. Firefighters have contained the fire and remain on scene extinguishing hot spots. Please use an alternate route for at least the next half hour and give emergency ...

She co-founded the advocacy group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, was Chief of Fire and Aviation at Yosemite National Park, has chaired two National Wildfire Coordinating Group programs and has ...

MISSOULA — Wildland and City of Missoula fire crews are serving the community in a different way for the 13th year by raising money for charity through their Fire on Ice hockey games.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded. Jenn McCarthy has worked as ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban interface.

"From Reedley, it's definitely one of the wildland fire programs that we have hired most from," U.S. Forest Service Fire Management Planning Specialist Brian Grabowski said. Current and past ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland urban interface or ...

Post your questions for him here by Feb. 27. By The Learning Network How did this baby seal get here? Tell us a story inspired by this image. By The Learning Network We invite students to ...

The Prescott National Forest and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management responded at 3 p.m., Monday Feb. 10, to a wildfire south of Mayer, near Pine Flats off Forest Road 67 for a 400-acre ...

The Department of the Interior employed 5,780 federal wildland fire personnel in 2024, while the US Forest Service employed over 11,300. Federal firefighters “respond to fires all over the ...