Federal wildland firefighters earn as little as $15 per hour, with entry level positions earning just less than $27,000 per ...

The $20,000 salary increase for wildland firefighters in the 2021 infrastructure law could be coming to an end next week if Congress doesn’t act.

Poudre School District partnered with the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control to train students in wildland ...

Officials say a shortage of wildland firefighters is becoming a threat to public safety. There are many reasons for the ...

As cool weather arrives and the number of U.S. wildfires declines, wildland firefighters who have spent months working in the heat and smoke are able to take a much-needed break. But for many of ...

Wildland firefighting is physically and emotionally intense. The job is also essential for community safety. Neal Waters/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Robin Verble, Missouri University of Science ...

Curt Isakson digs into the details of fireground communication, best practices and the tools to optimize the effort.

The writers Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder and Norman McLean all staffed high-elevation fire lookouts in the West — their ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As cool weather arrives and the number of U.S. wildfires declines, wildland firefighters who have spent months working in the heat and smoke are able to take a much-needed break.

20 of this year with the adjournment of the 118th Congress, 15,000 federal wildland firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service and Department of the Interior face pay cuts of up to 50% of their ...