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At wildfire base camps in California and beyond, therapy dogs and their handlers are providing firefighters with a much-needed distraction from the taxing work they face on the front lines.

An 80-year-old New Mexico man who left home to drive to the store ended up 552 miles from home in Granbury, where a volunteer firefighter who is also a pilot flew him back home.

The labor movement is torn over vaccine requirements — much like the country as a whole — wanting to both support its political ally in Biden and protect its members against infection but also not wanting to trample their workers’ rights.

Firefighters in Greece battled a large blaze in the Vilia area northwest of Athens as wildfires erupted across the country during its most severe heat wave in decades.

Cellphone footage captured the moment an Alabama man jumped from a burning 25-foot lift into a safety net below.

The Dixie Fire that sparked July 13th has become the 2nd largest wildfire in California’s history.

Out-of-state crews are heading to Montana to battle a blaze that injured five firefighters as the West struggles with a series of wildfires that have ravaged rural lands and destroyed homes

Garland ISD is offering students the opportunity to graduate from high school with a diploma, an associate’s degree and a certification in fire science through a partnership with the city’s fire department.

The Biden administration says it is hiring more federal firefighters — and immediately raising their pay — as officials ramp up response efforts in the face of a severe drought that’s setting the stage for another destructive summer of intense wildfires across the West

At least 21 people are hurt as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle an 8-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said.

A fire broke out early Tuesday morning at a Rockland County, N.Y. nursing home, killing one resident and leaving a firefighter missing and over one hundred other residents displaced.

Students at a Garland ISD high school have come up with an invention that is now getting national attention. Students at the Gilbreath-Reed Career and Technical Center designed a system to sanitize firefighters’ boots to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.

A Frisco resident was rescued by firefighters who responded to an overnight apartment fire on Wednesday.

Watch the moment a fireman in Lititz, Pa., saved a dog from a burning barn on Saturday night.

The two-story facility sits on a massive steel float and will begin operating in the spring of 2021.

Southwest Airlines is providing two separate roundtrip charter flights to fly the Texas firefighters to and from California as they help to battle the wildfires.

At least 100 firefighters from across Mexico arrived in California on Wednesday to assist in fighting the forest fires.

As fires break out in northern Brazil, a team of just five firefighters is being asked to cover more than 32,000 square miles of terrain.

Tens of thousands of firefighters are working around the clock to try and contain fires in California, but they simply need more help. NBC 5’s Lili Zheng reports the Fort Worth Fire Department is preparing to send eight firefighters and two trucks while crews from Dallas and Flower Mound are already headed west.

Federal firefighter units tasked with putting out some of the nation’s biggest wildfires are grappling with the reality of a fire season coinciding with a pandemic, NBC News reports. As historic wildfires have spread through much of the West this summer, firefighters organized within the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service are testing positive...