The budget package that helped avert a government shutdown on Friday when it passed the Senate in a 54-46 vote also ensured that federal wildland firefighters split between the U.S. Forest Service and ...

The federal government will combine its wildland firefighting operations within the Interior Department into a single new agency, dubbed the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, according to memos released ...

The president has told government agencies to consolidate their wildland firefighting into a single program, even though former federal officials warned that such a consolidation could be costly and ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) — Rapid City’s Fire Station 3 received a new Type 3 Fire Truck this week. It improves the ability to respond to wildland fires but can also be used in town as well. This new ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency, a move some former federal officials warn could increase the risk of ...

Veterans can get wildland fire training through several federal and state agencies, abiding standards of the National ...

Many military installations face wildland fire challenges that aren’t that dissimilar from what municipal fire departments face in the protection of the wildland urban interface. Agencies that are ...