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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...

Meet Kerith — a certified crisis response therapy dog offering comfort and support to firefighters in California.

Hank Hanson and his wife narrowly escaped a raging wildfire in California

More than 12,000 firefighters aided by helicopters and air tankers on Friday battled wildfires throughout California as reinforcements began to arrive

A gas explosion in a Baltimore neighborhood killed a woman, left others seriously hurt and flattened three homes, firefighters said.

A firefighter in the hospital for over a month was released Thursday afternoon.

A firefighter in the hospital for over a month is to be released Thursday. Two weeks ago, some of the department got together to help Hammons wife deliver him his favorite meal, a Whataburger breakfast.

A Frisco firefighter’s colleagues found a unique way to visit him face-to-face when they couldn’t deliver his favorite Whataburger meal to the hospital.

They are two disasters that require opposite responses: To save lives and reduce the spread of COVID-19, people are being told to remain isolated. But in a wildfire, thousands of firefighters must work in close quarters for weeks at a time. Wildfires have already broken out in Texas and Florida, and agencies are scrambling to finish plans for a new…

The three American firefighters who were killed when the aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in Australia have been identified by their employer