A fast-moving California wildfire exploded to become the state’s biggest of the year, forcing evacuations and the closure of ...

Marysville Fire initially started 11:24 a.m. June 29 in Yuba County, California. Since its discovery three days ago, it has ...

A wildfire near the Nevada-California border has burned 223 acres. As of Wednesday morning, it’s 90% contained.

Volunteerism across the fire districts has deep roots, dating to the 1700s, when fighting fires fell on the shoulders of ...

Highly trained K-9s can sniff out the smallest traces of accelerants as fire danger rises ahead of the Fourth of July holiday ...

More than half of the California National Guard’s firefighting teams were put under federal command, with no way to recall ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department has less than one firefighter for every 1,000 residents, with a staffing rate of 0.90, a Bay Area News Group analysis found.

A man was driving his pickup down I-90 on Wednesday, May 28 in Rapid City when he noticed smoke coming from his vehicle, according to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.

As California wildfires raged, incarcerated exploited for labor Inmates get little training to become firefighters, are paid as little as $2.90 per day and, until now, were blocked from the ...

Firefighters and other personnel from nearly 90 fire departments spanning all nine Bay Area counties are helping to battle the cascade of wildfires that have ravaged large swaths of Los Angeles over ...

Hundreds of California inmates are helping battle the LA wildfires. Some prisoner firefighters earn $26.90 per 24-hour shift, or just over $1 an hour.