California wildland firefighters are willing to wear respirators despite concerns about mobility and safety, according to new ...

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In many places, water is plentiful, relatively inexpensive and easy to obtain in large quantities. It’s also very effective when combating heat and flame, which makes it the agent of choice for ...

Firefighting aircraft are currently descending on Los Angeles to tackle some of the worst forest fires the city has ever seen. The aerial firefighters are scooping water out the ocean to tackle the ...

Brad Blois can vividly recall the first time he fought a wildfire from the air. He remembers the thick stench of smoke, the sound of chatter crackling through his radio, the physical vibrations of the ...

Firefighting is dangerous. We intuitively believe this but it is not true according to a recently published article that states "firefighting as an occupation does not have as many fatalities as other ...

Fallen firefighter Robert E. Caldwell, a Granite Mountain hotshot who perished in the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona, said to a comrade, “I’d rather die in my boots than live in a suit.” It would seem ...

When devastating wildfires erupted across Los Angeles County this week, David Torgerson’s team of firefighters went to work. The thousands of city, county and state firefighters dispatched to battle ...

12:45 p.m. April 8, 2019This story refers to the OV-10 Bronco aircraft as “larger” than an S2-T tanker. The OV-10 Bronco has a smaller gross weight than the S2-T. As powerful winds sent embers ...

The plane landed safely but is out of service because the collision damaged its wing, a Cal Fire spokesman said. By Qasim Nauman A firefighting plane flying over the Palisades fire in Los Angeles ...