The soon-to-expire arrangement was an off-budget disaster fund that kicks in when regular appropriations for fire suppression ...

The new U.S. Wildland Fire Service has been established to streamline federal responses to wildfires and improve resiliency ...

The Laguna Fire burns along a canyon ridge July 4. As many as 27% of US Forest Service jobs remain vacant as of July 17, according to a Pro Publica analysis. Despite the Trump administration’s public ...

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Wildfires have become a defining crisis of the modern West, obliterating forests, homes, and communities while choking skies ...

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has formally announced the establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service (USWFS), a ...

TAOS — Bobbie Scopa recalled the days when a 12,000-acre wildfire was still considered a big deal. She was a 19-year-old, rookie wildland firefighter with the National Forest Service the year she ...

The station will also house the Feather River Hotshot crew, with construction plans including rooms for sleeping and living.

As it slowed the rate of wildfire fuels reduction on federal forest lands, the U.S. Forest Service has also returned to a firefighting policy that could also boost levels of flammable materials in ...

Wildfire activity is expected to increase across Texas for the remainder of winter and into spring as drought spreads.

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