This spring marks 31 years since the local publication of the first Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG) in 1994 and 26 years since it became a National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) interagency ...

I had a rewarding and successful wildland fire and fuels management career, and I feel the ultimate opportunity for giving back is in helping to develop the next generation of wildland fire and ...

The federal government will combine its wildland firefighting operations within the Interior Department into a single new agency, dubbed the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, according to memos released ...

Western Oregon wildland firefighters wrapped up their field training June 27 as Oregon begins its 2025 wildfire season. The annual camp in Sweet Home gives training to new and existing wildland ...

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 ...

Wary of wildfire threats, the U.S. Forest Service is asking as many as 1,400 employees who left the agency in recent months to help fight wildfires this summer. The request is to employees who ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. As one of the most fire-prone states in the nation, Montana saw 2,322 wildfires burn 352,491 ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

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 ...