Firefighting legend Shawna Legarza in 2002 at the Burns Canyon fire. (Courtesy of Shawna Legarza) When La Plata County in southwestern Colorado needed a director of emergency management in 2021, they ...

HELENA, Mont. — A slew of legislation aimed at retaining Montana’s rural firefighting capacity is making its way to the state Senate. Another bill, House Bill 127, would indirectly support rural ...

(TNS) — Boulder County this week awarded about $2 million to mainly rural fire districts in the third round of fall grants from the Emergency Services Sales and Use Tax. The grants, approved Tuesday ...

They are the images of firefighters at work, captured in moments of candor and concern; moments held still by a photographer's camera. Alan Gionet spoke with fire photographer Chris Rodgers. Rodgers ...

Tuolumne Utilities District staff are touting the recent addition of four new untreated water draft points designated for rural firefighting, which they are calling a cornerstone of its newly-adopted ...

Small rural fire departments across North Carolina are struggling to recruit volunteer firefighters and pay for the rising cost of equipment. That’s prompting the state legislature to look more ...

Wildfire specialist skills and capability risk being lost, even as climate change escalates the hazards. Now, a new stocktake is about to start, in the shadow of a looming levy change for forest ...