After asserting for years that firefighters cannot do their jobs while wearing protective masks, the U.S. Forest Service will ...

Joel had never worn a mask while fighting fires. I learned that the Forest Service actually had a decades-old policy of ...

The Forest Service is reversing course as it faces growing pressure over workers falling ill with cancer and lung disease.

The U.S. Forest Service has lifted a decades-long ban on wildland firefighters wearing masks. The move comes too late for a ...

The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke. The U.S. Forest ...

The federal government has issued new guidelines to wildland firefighters for the voluntary use of protective masks. The move ...

After years of wildland firefighters developing cancer, lung disease and other health issues while not being allowed to wear ...

The U.S. Forest Service will begin providing wildfire crews with masks to protect against smoke, reversing a decades-long ...

The policy change comes after a series in The New York Times that included a story about an Oregon firefighter who got sick with cancer at 24.

Cal Fire contributed $9.7 million to study how the Los Angeles fires could have impacted responding firefighters’ cancer ...

The Fall River Fire Fighters union IAFF Local 1314 announced that the city's fire department has received seven complete sets ...