As firefighters are on the front lines, risking their lives to protect communities, their gear poses risks to their health.

The Wildfire Conservancy is conducting a first-of-a-kind cancer study on firefighters battling the Palisades Fire. The goal is to track how wildland and urban interface ...

Firefighters are already exposed to many risks to their well-being. The gear they wear and tools they use to keep themselves ...

Firefighters in New Mexico packed up their gear Thursday morning and are headed out west, to help with the wildfires ...

The Oregon State Fire Marshal has mobilized 15 strike teams made up of 300 firefighters and 75 engines. Another 70 wildland firefighters are on their way as well.

As wildfires ravage through California, killing at least 10 people and destroying neighborhoods, several firefighters across ...

U.S. Forest Service investigators today were seeking the public's help identifying two men who broke into a locked fire engine and stole equipment from a crew standing by for deployments during the ...

“All of us, we’re all in the wildland team ... “When our firefighters accept an assignment like this one, they pack all the personal items and work gear they’ll need for 14 days, including ...

Urban wildfires release a host of chemicals into the air — from copper to lead — and protective gear falls woefully ... s the biggest threat to wildland firefighters.

By Will Atwater The recent fires ravaging Los Angeles have highlighted the dangers faced in firefighting — winds, fast-moving flames, smoke, chemical fumes — but it turns out that one of the most ...