The Springfield Fire Department’s Public Safety Office plays a critical role in keeping the community safe by investigating fires, enforcing building codes, and ...

The fire was believed to have started on the first floor and, according to fire officials, caused the back porches to ...

The Fayetteville Fire Department has developed a new team that will use two fully electronic dirt bikes, or “e-moto” bikes, ...

Feb. 5—The Rockwall Fire Department is currently accepting applications for its Citizens Fire Academy — a free eight-week course that Rockwall residents can take to gain a deeper understanding and ...

A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to talk about the handover of power. But what is normally a routine ...

Peter Matthews is convinced that lack of trust in department leadership can be mitigated when faith is put into internal processes rather than posting to social media. Trust is the foundation of ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

Robert Jensen, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, urged everyone in the impacted area of the new blaze -- dubbed the Hughes Fire -- to leave immediately. "We've seen the devastation ...

Overnight plans: Chief Anthony Marrone of the Los Angeles County Fire Department said 4,000 firefighters had been assigned to the fire, and would work overnight to control it and monitor hot spots.

Within hours, the blaze had burned across more than 10,000 acres (41sq km), the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said. They added that the fire is at 14% containment.

Four new wildfires have already started this week. A map from California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection shows the locations of all six wildfires burning in Southern California.

The blaze had not crossed the county line, authorities reported. A day earlier, the Ventura County Fire Department had shifted resources in case flames made a run into local areas, Deputy Fire ...