The wildfire burning in steep and remote terrain west of Ross Lake was likely sparked by thunderstorms in late June.

Brett French Lee Newspapers Aug 29, 2025 Aug 29, 2025 For the past 30 years, Yellowstone National Park has employed a “light, fast, flexible” team of seven to 10 firefighters known as a wildland fire ...

Mike Fincham was traveling to a wildfire when he suffered a medical event A wildland firefighter and paramedic on assignment with the Columbine Wildland Fire Module, based in Vallecito, was injured ...

CHEYENNE—A $5.1 million investment that would create the first two ground-based professional wildland firefighting teams in Wyoming history is gaining momentum in the statehouse. On Monday, the ...

The prescribed burn that firefighters recently conducted outside Molina might seem like a rural location to most people, but for an expert Grand Junction wildland fire crew that was involved, rural is ...

The lightning-caused Lone Mountain Fire proved so successful in burning away forest undergrowth and potential fuels for future wildfires, officials with the Smokey Bear Ranger District decided to call ...

If you’re fortunate to live in a community where the fire season doesn’t last all year (as it’s been declared to do in parts of Texas and California), you may tend to lose focus on wildland/urban ...

At the end of the 2020 fire season, Rincon, CA, Fire Department (RFD) Fire Chief Ed Hadfield chose to engage in an area of wildland firefighting that previously was untapped by the RFD. With members ...

Editor's note: Find Firehouse.com's complete coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic here. Some measures intended to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus are difficult to abide by when you’re a wildland ...