(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Over 100 firefighters from 12 fire agencies across El Paso and Teller counties gathered to conduct a fire training field day on Saturday, March 7, to certify over 60 new wildland ...

A task force created by Governor Stitt, the Oklahoma Wildland Fire Working Group, has issued a report with multiple recommendations to improve fire response. The group was created after the March 2025 ...

A group of Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday asked Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to halt creation of a ...

Sep. 5—As the U.S. Forest Service makes cuts that threaten to hobble federal firefighting capabilities, California is entering into a pact with other western states and parts of Canada to beef up ...

The Department of the Interior has opened applications for the first-ever Director of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a newly created role that will oversee and coordinate the nation’s wildland fire ...

For decades, federal firefighters have trudged and parachuted into wildfires with only “a bandana and a prayer,” as the saying goes, to protect them from inhaling dangerous toxins. Meanwhile, studies ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) —The Deschutes National Forest of the USDA Forest Service said Monday it is now hiring for several seasonal positions, including wildland firefighters and smokejumpers "We are ...

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a unification of programs previously part of six DOI agencies and offices.