Firefighting legend Shawna Legarza in 2002 at the Burns Canyon fire. (Courtesy of Shawna Legarza) When La Plata County in southwestern Colorado needed a director of emergency management in 2021, they ...

(TNS) — Boulder County this week awarded about $2 million to mainly rural fire districts in the third round of fall grants from the Emergency Services Sales and Use Tax. The grants, approved Tuesday ...

Small rural fire departments across North Carolina are struggling to recruit volunteer firefighters and pay for the rising cost of equipment. That’s prompting the state legislature to look more ...

TAYLOR COUNTY, Texas — Nearly $7 million in grant funding is headed to rural fire departments across the Big Country. In partnership with the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program, Texas ...

Tuolumne Utilities District staff are touting the recent addition of four new untreated water draft points designated for rural firefighting, which they are calling a cornerstone of its newly-adopted ...