With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.

The Prescott National Forest and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management responded at 3 p.m., Monday Feb. 10, to a ...

James Bartels was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sparking 26 fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors announced on Monday.

Are firefighters perhaps especially prone to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? Beth Flaherty takes a closer ...

Current and former employees say public safety agencies are still freezing hiring they claim to have exempted and liken the ...

Sheehy’s bill, if passed and signed into law, would require the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior to come up with a plan within 180 days to coordinate federal firefighting ...

Firefighter Michael LoMastro, engineer Chris Bernall, Captain Jeremy Sones and Lieutenant Brent SerVoss arrive in Los Angeles ...

Calif., asked that federal seasonal firefighters be exempt from President Donald Trump's executive order implementing a ...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday urged the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to exempt federal seasonal firefighters from President Trump’s ...

Schiff’s letter to multiple U.S. agencies comes after NBC News reported that federal firefighters were not considered exempt from the hiring freeze.

The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers ...

Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was ...