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Lee County’s new weekday strike teams and Saltillo’s first stand-alone fire station are boosting coverage, cutting response times and aiming to lower insurance ratings

Victims say someone threw flammable liquid onto the fire in Whitfield County, sending flames through the crowd and prompting multiple airlifts to burn centers

Norwich officials offered a path to reinstate Yantic Fire Engine Co. No. 1 as volunteers press lawsuit over Unified Command and question public safety, costs

The newest state-of-the-industry project focuses on firefighter training

The Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department will now have a permanent location to provide annual physicals, cardiac stress tests and cancer-related screenings

A U.S. district judge vacated Richared Brown’s life sentence nearly 30 years after his conviction in a deadly Kansas City arson that killed six firefighters

Tri Lakes Volunteer Fire Department Firefighter Jeff Derrick became disoriented and was overcome by heavy smoke while trying to escape

The balloon struck a cell phone tower in northern Gregg County, leaving two occupants stranded hundreds of feet above the ground

Police shot and killed the suspect after authorities say he opened fire with a pistol and rifle near Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden on Sixth Street in Austin

After a breakout run in Season 48, Sacramento fire captain Joe Hunter is back in Fiji for the franchise’s milestone 50th season

A key mutual aid agreement will end amid liability concerns after the chief and 16 volunteers resigned from Lewis County Fire District 18

Lifetime funding secured for the WTC Health Program, but layoffs and a hiring freeze are delaying care

An 18-year-old Baker High School student is set on becoming a firefighter and EMT after joining the Baker City Fire Department’s new cadet program

After Mid County Fire Protection District firefighters pulled out due to a roof collapse, relatives say they were told the home had been searched

Fire Chief Tim Sendelbach rejected allegations of insubordination, misinformation and creating division, arguing the Loveland Fire Rescue Authority board’s claims lack evidence as it moves to terminate his contract

A veteran firefighter testified he flagged smoldering areas days before embers from the Lachman fire reignited into the blaze that killed 12.

Charlotte’s $1.9M Ladder 2 tiller truck is sidelined by rear steer-axle issues and its $1.9M electric fire engine is also out of service

Police say the man lit fires in his Pocono Pines townhome to “kill spiders,” including placing a love seat over a smoldering blaze, and the fire spread to three adjoining units

Orange Fire Marshal James Vincent fired back at critics online and defended volunteers who had just worked 24 hours straight during a blizzard

Boonville Fire Chief David Pritchard Jr. was discharged a week after a propane explosion at Abundant Life Fellowship Church injured five people