Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley asked for full-time employees to augment a mostly volunteer brush-clearing crew two years ago.

The recent LA fires drove home how dangerous wildfires can be when they encroach on urban areas. So-called 'wildland-urban interface' fires are on the rise. However, building codes and standards have ...

Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...

The devastating fires in Los Angeles are revealing just how deeply ill-prepared the city was for a disaster of such magnitude. While nobody can ever be fully […] ...

Wildland and City of Missoula fire crews are serving the community in a different way, raising money for charity through ...

There’s a line in the documentary where one of the ... You see a lot of veterans transition into wildland fire because those guys are like, “My body doesn’t mean anything, I need to throw ...

Large-scale fire events are on the rise, from the flames that raged for days across LA, to the widespread devastation seen in ...