(Several of my sources requested that I use only their first names.) I had previously trained as a wildland firefighter ... with a sleeping bag. “I’ve been fighting fire in California, up ...

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basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.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 ...

A camp that prepared women to become wildland firefighters has been paused because of President Donald Trump’s executive ...

Seasonal wildland firefighters' orders were allegedly rescinded due to President Trump's federal hiring freeze. Following the worst fire season in California history, and with wildfire season ...

for not adopting policies he believes will reduce fire risk. When he first took office in 2017, he issued a similar hiring freeze but exempted wildland firefighters. Firefighters and their ...

Although there are no current statistics on the prevalence of ADHD among firefighters, one in five wildland firefighters ... can ADHD be a “superpower” in the fire service?

Federal firefighters are an essential part of the nation’s firefighting capability. The Department of the Interior employed 5,780 federal wildland fire personnel in 2024, while the US Forest ...

LIVES OF OTHERS IN THE AREA. TODAY IN MARSHALLTOWN, FIREFIGHTERS WHO BATTLED A DEADLY HOUSE FIRE MONDAY RETURNED TO WORK. IT’S THEIR FIRST TIME ON DUTY SINCE THEY PULLED A THREE YEAR OLD CHILD ...

A Binghamton firefighter was killed and two others were injured while fighting a fire downtown on Wednesday night. The firefighter was transported to UHS Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City ...

IT MIGHT HAVE. WE ARE FOLLOWING SOME BREAKING NEWS OUT OF WOBURN. IT’S A BATTLE OF FIRE AND ICE THAT SKY 5 OVER UNION STREET, WHERE WE’VE SEEN FIREFIGHTERS UP ON A LADDER AND THAT SMOKE ...

Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm, which began Jan ... said Luke Mayfield, president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, a national advocacy group for ...