When wildland firefighters deploy to a fire, they have to leave their homes and their families for a minimum of 14 days, Martin said, along with the days of travel to and from the fire.

The silhouette of a firefighter working a night shift on the Pack Trail Fire is ... 15,000 federal wildland firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service and Department of the Interior face ...

Wildland firefighting, in particular, is considered a high-risk job – with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting 400 total on-duty deaths in the profession in the past 20 ...

In a typical year, wildland firefighters would still be gearing up for the core of the fire season, but in a decade characterized by increasingly hotter and dryer summers, defining what a "typical ...

Federal wildland firefighters, by necessity, are transient workers. During the fire season — now nearly year-round — they must be available to travel anywhere in the United States at any time.

“It’s like having gasoline out there,” said Brian Steinhardt, forest fire zone manager for Prescott and Coconino national forests in Arizona, in a recent Associated Press story about the ...

The U.S. faces a wildland firefighter shortage, according to the Forest Service, as new recruits train at Washington state's Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.

Over five days of intense instruction, the newly certified wildland firefighters completed their training in preparation for 2023's fire season, which officially began July 1.