California Attorney General Rob Bonta praises court for blocking federal funding freeze amounting to an estimated $3 trillion, while Apple celebrates Black History Month with Unity Collection and Gov.

When unemployed marine biologist Lanny Flaherty poked his head into the ranger's station at the Wallowa Whitman National ...

The U.S. Forest Service employs more than 11,000 people in its wildland fire program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture website, and historically has had a hard time hiring and retai ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded. Jenn McCarthy has worked as ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban interface.

The Department of the Interior employed 5,780 federal wildland fire personnel in 2024, while the US Forest Service employed over 11,300. Federal firefighters “respond to fires all over the ...

both advocate for a more sophisticated understanding of fire and the ecosystems that foster urban and wildland blazes. Fire is so often viewed as a crisis and emergency that it is divorced from ...

Recent wildfires are larger and more intense than they've ever been in the historical record. If you've been watching the ...

for not adopting policies he believes will reduce fire risk. When he first took office in 2017, he issued a similar hiring freeze but exempted wildland firefighters. Firefighters and their ...

Republican Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana and Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of California recently introduced a Senate bill that would create the “National Wildland Fire Service.” The bill ...

spokesman for the LA County Fire Department. "It's been almost 300 days since we've had any significant rainfall." Angeles National Forest Chief Robert Garcia described the wildland condition as ...