I met a guy in college who worked on a wildfire hotshot crew during the summer. It was a role he had pursued since graduating high school, dedicating his summers to protecting homes, communities, and ...

Centuries of misguided policy, politics and prejudice have primed the land for the unprecedented infernos that wildland firefighters now face every year. (Jordan Thomas/ Penguin Publishing Group) What ...

Brian Fennessy has nearly 50 years of fire experience, which began in the late 1970s on elite federal hotshot crews and other ...

From 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their life--of Ana, the struggles she encountered, and the constraints of ...

At the height of wildfire season, thousands of firefighters regularly face a host of dangers on the frontline, including confronting toxic smoke. As seasons grow longer and more intense, the health of ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Few photographers can claim to know as much about forest fires as Aaron Colussi. For the past decade, the ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have been able to ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) —The Deschutes National Forest of the USDA Forest Service said Monday it is now hiring for several seasonal positions, including wildland firefighters and smokejumpers "We are ...