Wildland firefighters say a new bill that lowers the bar to access benefits for work-related cancers, heart injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder needs amendments to specify how long they ...

Wildland firefighter gear is designed to strike a series of delicate, life-or-death balances. It must be heavy-duty enough to protect its wearer from the searing heat of 1000°F flames ...

A temporary raise implemented by the Biden administration is scheduled to run out at the end of this year, and legislation that would permanently increase wildland firefighter salaries has stalled ...

Women in the federal wildland firefighting corps are organizing so they don't have to give up their often arduous, itinerant jobs when they have kids, and can continue climbing their chosen career ...

Yet, federal wildland firefighters are frequently subjected to inconsistent compensation despite their essential role in ...

A Texas firefighter pulled a trapped toddler from the window of a burning apartment building in a daring early morning rescue Sunday, and it was all caught on video. A firefighter, identified in a ...

Sarah Jakober is a U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighter who serves on the Grande Ronde Rappel Crew based in La Grande, Oregon. In her Brief But Spectacular take, she offers a window into a day ...

Dressed in their recognizable yellow and green uniforms, stained by dirt, sweat dripping down their brows and smoke burning their eyes and lungs, nearly 170 newly certified wildland firefighters ...

The union representing Ontario wildland firefighters is calling on the province to amend Bill 190. While the bill gives wildland firefighters presumptive cancer coverage under the Workplace Safety ...

Steve Lopez is a California native who has been a Los Angeles Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist. Lopez is the ...

But - and then it would just be, like, black. JUHLIN: Black from ash. King has been a wildland firefighter since graduating college. KING: For me and for a lot of firefighters, it's just ...