You're a hotshot working to contain a wildfire. The conflagration jumps the fire line, forcing your crew to flee using pre-determined escape routes. At the start of the day, the crew boss estimated ...

President Biden said his administration is working to increase wildland firefighter pay to $29/hr. A huge jump from the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ben Elkind, a wildland firefighter based in Washington state who has traveled the country ...

Without action, the government could shut down after September 30. Along with that, federal wildland firefighters would see ...

Eight firefighters were rushed to nearby hospitals after an Orange County truck for wildfire crews crashed in Irvine.

“We used to have a fire season and now it's a fire year,” said George Broyles, a retired wildland firefighter and health researcher, who works with the Wildfire Conservancy, a nonprofit ...

All eight passengers in a firefighting vehicle that overturned were hospitalized, with six sustaining severe injuries.

Two bills are going through congress that would give low ranking wildland firefighters a 42% pay increase and top ranking ...

Federal wildland firefighters could be facing a pay cut at the end of September unless legislators secure permanent funding ...

You’re a hotshot working to contain a wildfire ... With the flames at your back, you check your watch and hope they were right. Firefighters mostly rely on life-long experience and ground ...

Ben Elkind is a wildland firefighter based in Washington state ... ELKIND: And then, when I was a hot shot, you know, we'd travel all over - Southern California, New Mexico, Alaska, all the ...