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Fallon stressed that “fire management is not just ‘fire fighting’. It takes multiple disciplines– wildlife specialists, ...
Fisher Bennett, a 21-year-old wildland firefighter and son of a longtime Poudre Fire Authority firefighter, is in the ...
Officials across Oregon say they will have enough firefighters on hand to battle expected wildfires this summer, but warn ...
Instead, they wore army-green cargo pants, sturdy hiking boots ... who discovered her passion for wildland firefighting after taking an urban fire class. “I just wanted to be a structure ...
Photo: Cormac McCrimmon, Rocky Mountain PBS GREELEY, Colo. — AJ Alvarado marched through the knee-high grass wearing eight-inch leather boots and fire-resistant ... Alvarado completed her basic ...
The Basalt Police Department and Roaring Fork Fire Rescue responded to a wildland fire on Saturday afternoon on Columbine Court. A social media post by the police said the fire had been quickly ...
So when she came across a friend’s Instagram post about a women in wildland firefighting bootcamp, she thought to herself, “Wow, this is perfect.” Over two weekends in Vale, Oregon ...
The Forest Service manages about 15 million acres across Colorado and, as the largest wildland firefighting force ... “When you go hiking this summer, you might be going through an obstacle ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded. Jenn McCarthy has worked as ...
In the wake of devastating fires in Los Angeles and Southern California, communities in the Mountain West are considering fire resilience in their own ... have adopted versions of the International ...
CHEYENNE — A fire severely damaged Laramie County Fire Authority Station 74 on Saturday, destroying three wildland firefighting apparatus that were to be deployed to assist in fighting fires in ...