Wildland firefighting is physically and emotionally intense. The job is also essential for community safety. Neal Waters/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images As cool weather arrives and the number of U.S.

Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco ...

No job faces more immediate life-or-death scenarios on a daily basis than firefighting. But even with advances in equipment and training, this brave profession still contends with substantial dangers ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

Providing on-site protection during a fire is a tiny part of what private firefighting companies do, executives told BI. Crews for on-site protection cost thousands per day. Companies in the space ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Dan Gibbs put on his firefighting gear and responded to the Cameron Peak Fire as it ripped through more than 326 square miles of northern Colorado in ...

Photo courtesy Indianapolis (IN) Fire Department PIO. For firefighters, when the tones drop, there is no warm-up, no easing into the situation, and no room for performance to suffer from fatigue.