Dangerous, frontline firefighting jobs may get a bit safer thanks to new heat-sensing sensors designed by NASA. The sensors ...

Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

The sustained, year-round efforts of wildland firefighters save countless acres of timber; billions of dollars in property damage; and, most importantly, human lives. The U.S. has recorded 1.5 million ...

With wildfire season coming soon, NASA researchers are attempting to give firefighters additional safety measures through low-cost thermal sensors that are installed on fire bulldozers. These sensors ...

In this file photo taken Feb. 27, 2024, volunteers from six area fire departments and the U.S. Forestry Service help extinguish a grass fire that destroyed two ...

SEE SOME SMOKE DURING OPERATION AS WELL. THE CITY OF MODESTO HAS SOMETHING NEW TO MAKE HOMES AND BUSINESSES A LITTLE SAFER FOR. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ALREADY PUTTING ITS NEW FIREFIGHTING DOZER TO USE ...

November 6, 2023 – Coatesville, PA – Witmer Public Safety Group, Inc., the leading multi-channel distributor of public-safety equipment, supplies and service, is pleased to announce its acquisition of ...

Robert Reagan, 35, of Fresno County, died July 26, 2016, when his bulldozer overturned while trying to access a proposed fire line near Big Sur in the course of fighting the Soberanes Fire. (Cal Fire) ...