The IAWF board has released a position paper Health & Wellbeing in the Wildland Fire Sector, which outlines actions the ...

A new bipartisan bill in the Senate aims to protect federal wildland firefighters from working long, dangerous shifts with almost no protection from the thick smoke.

Former and current federal firefighters say they welcome the proposed changes, but worry that the wrong respirator or mask ...

On Monday, U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and John Curtis (R-Utah.) introduced the bipartisan Healthy Lungs for Heroes Act, legislation to create the first-ever respiratory protection standards ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have been able to ...

For example, in 2023, Canada called in assistance from 12 countries in its worst ever recorded fire season.   This growing ...

Wildland firefighters were stunned when federal immigration authorities last week raided an active wildfire response in Washington state, arresting two firefighters and sidelining crews for hours.

Madison County Sheriff's Office, along with the Northern Rockies Complex Incident Management Team 6, on Monday identified the firefighter who died in the line of duty on the Bivens Creek Fire as Ruben ...

Santa Barbara–based firefighter Jorge Hurtado brings the world of wildland firefighting to life for kids with his Sparky the Brave Wildland Firefighter series. With two previous books about the ...

This spring marks 31 years since the local publication of the first Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG) in 1994 and 26 years since it became a National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) interagency ...