MISSION — When Raymond Huesties first became a firefighter for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Eastern Oregon, he didn’t really have much of a choice. “My boss gave me a ...

On a warm, dry day last week, prescribed burn coordinator Zachary O’Donnell ignited his drip torch and passed it to the landowner. They stood on the edge of a forest, somewhere between Marion and Old ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Just past the iconic “M” on the southern face of the Bridgers, a sign nailed to a blackened pine ...

Sometimes the job of a fire department is to start a blaze rather than put one out. Counterintuitive? Not according to Durango Fire Protection District Wildfire Battalion Chief Scott Nielsen. On ...

BLUFFTON, SC (WTOC) - A brush fire burned 29 acres in Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge on the afternoon of July 29. At about 3 p.m., an off-duty firefighter spotted flames on Pinckney Island ...