Marina Vance had an E.P.A. grant to help homeowners counter the impact of wildfire smoke, until the agency deemed the ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

Some firefighter gear is manufactured with chemicals called brominated flame retardants that could pose a risk to firefighter ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

Check back for more updates. Job openings in the U.S. rose sharply in the fall and layoffs remained low as businesses geared up for the holiday shopping season , but the number of people actually ...

SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa (KTIV) - Sergeant Bluff Fire and Rescue is partnering with Sergeant Bluff-Luton Community Schools for its own Fire Science Academy program next semester for the first time. The ...

The latest batch of weekly jobless-claims data brought more evidence Wednesday that the labor market is stuck in an uncertain neutral: layoffs are subdued, but hiring is flagging, too. Last week ...

Analysts have called it the “no-hire, no-fire” economy. But the thousands of job cuts announced by Amazon.com Inc. and United Parcel Service Inc. on Tuesday may suggest that the U.S. job market’s ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jordan Calloway was booked and busy with the newest episode of Fire Country, which had him pulling ...

The Fairfield Fire Department announced that retired Fairfield Fire Engineer Chris Bell died at the age of 41 on Tuesday morning from job-related occupational cancer. Chris Bell (Courtesy Photo) Bell, ...