Firefighters practice by aiming a hose’s water into a mobile tank, with the water then returning to the training hydrant.

A mandatory countywide burn ban is now in effect in Indian River County after officials declared a local state of emergency ...

A tiny insect is silently killing California's coast live oaks. First spotted in Ventura County last year, the goldspotted ...

In December 2023, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted to sign a five-year contract for ambulance service in much of the county with Consolidated Fire Agencies, or CONFIRE, starting ...

A local official says some families have moved out temporarily, but nobody is considered "displaced." ...

In February 2024, AMR sued San Bernardino County, alleging the Board of Supervisors violated state and federal law when awarding the contract to CONFIRE, instead of AMR, which had scored higher in an ...

State Sen. Omar Fateh and Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley have challenged that picture, saying the scope is far ...

A crowded debate featuring six Democrats and one Republican on Tuesday night signaled a shift in California’s gubernatorial race, as candidates more aggressively trained their fire on term-limited Gov ...

The first major televised debate among leading candidates for California governor Tuesday saw the race’s newest entrant — San ...

Riverside School District officials are discussing ways they can keep costs down as the district faces deficit spending and is, according to Riverside treasurer Stephen Thompson, “levy imminent.” ...

Both FASNY and Long Island fire officials said paid fire departments are not an option, estimating it would cost $5 billion to operate statewide. The only paid fire department on Long Island is in ...

Borrowing from novelist James Hilton, who coined the word “Shangri-La to describe a Tibetan utopia in a 1933 novel, Franklin ...