Despite similar risks when working on either uncontrolled fires or prescribed burns, federal wildland firefighters currently earn hazard pay only for wildfires.

When wildland firefighters are on prescribed fires, they’re breathing the same smoke and facing many of the same hazards ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (COLORADO SPRINGS) — Over 100 firefighters from 12 fire agencies across El Paso and Teller counties gathered to conduct a fire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland ...

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Wildland firefighters are willing to wear respirators and other protective breathing equipment despite concerns the devices could hinder their ability to fight fires safely, according to new research ...

For decades, federal firefighters have trudged and parachuted into wildfires with only “a bandana and a prayer,” as the saying goes, to protect them from inhaling dangerous toxins. Meanwhile, studies ...

Bill Arsenault explains why when departments expect to travel beyond their jurisdiction to aid in fighting wildfires, they ...

Wildland firefighter Justin Shaw and his family will be the honored guests Saturday during the JW Memorial Foundation's ...

Shane Del Grosso spent some 30 summers crossing smoke-shrouded mountains and forests to fight increasingly devastating wildfires in the U.S. West. Toward the end, his skills and experience propelled ...

Following a ProPublica article revealing that the U.S. Forest Service had for years issued clothing to wildland firefighters that it knew contained potentially dangerous “forever chemicals,” 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 ...