The IAWF board has released a position paper Health & Wellbeing in the Wildland Fire Sector, which outlines actions the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Members of Nevada’s fire-service elite – fire marshals, firefighters and community organizers – met with citizens of Nevada’s high- and extreme-fire-hazard communities Thursday, September 18 and ...

Rep. Dave Min, D-Costa Mesa, says predictive models have fallen short in understanding extreme conditions that fuel fires. He ...

As Southern California braces for its hottest weather of the summer, a new firefighting crew is stomping through the woods. The city's first full-time and paid wildfire firefighters trained on ...

MISSOULA, Montana (Reuters) - Scientists at a federal laboratory in Montana that has focused on fire for decades are increasingly concerned about wildfires that spread to population centers as ...

Iowa firefighting crews fight wildfires in July near Devil's Tower in eastern Wyoming. For nearly 20 years, Iowa has dispatched firefighters from around the state to fight wildfires across the Rocky ...

The Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative helps Jackson, Josephine and Klamath County students understand wildfire ...

As wildfires become more common across Oregon, residents need to be informed about wildfire characteristics. But it can be hard to sift through jargon and firefighting terminology. To better ...

On Monday, U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and John Curtis (R-Utah.) introduced the bipartisan Healthy Lungs for Heroes Act, legislation to create the first-ever respiratory protection standards ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – At the Springer Correctional Center in northern New Mexico, women inmates are getting hands-on training in wildland firefighting. The New Mexico Corrections Department’s recently ...