Both Little and Big Cottonwood canyons are wildly popular, nestled along the Wasatch Front and offering premier hiking ...

As wildfire risks grow nationwide, NFPA’s 2026 Wildfire Community Preparedness Day funding highlights the increasing overlap between community resilience and occupational safety responsibilities.

Utah land managers released a new map, outlining nearly 60,000 "high risk" wildland urban interface structures all over the ...

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 ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

Andrew Bozzo explains why the box approach to incident command at wildland urban interface fires ensures that saving lives and protecting property are the top priorities. The drawing and the command ...

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 ...

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 ...

When wildfires rage in California, incarcerated people are often on the front lines fighting the flames. TED Fellow Royal Ramey was one of them. He shares the story of how doing public service in ...

Lawyers for an Oregon wildland firefighter arrested by federal agents while on the job last month are going to court to demand his immediate release, arguing that his detention was an abuse of power.

The cause of a 300-acre fire south of Kennewick is still under investigation, but appears to be suspicious. Firefighters were called about 2:30 p.m. Thursday to battle the blaze along Interstate 82 ...

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Firefighters are on the scene of a four-acre wildland fire near the 3000 block of McMillan Canyon Road north of Shandon and west of Cholame. According to the ...