Firefighting maintenance increases downtime, costs, and stress while masking deeper reliability and planning issues. Reactive ...

A new soy-based firefighting foam offers a potential alternative for firefighters across the country who have long relied on ...

Wildfires can start anywhere, anytime, but usually happen during the hotter, drier months. What makes them dangerous is how fast flames travel — up to 14 miles an hour. That's why wildfires can cover ...

The current firefighting protective ensemble is heavy, thick, multilayered, and it exacerbates the challenge of thermoregulation due to its limited permeability and insulative properties. A person's ...

We all pass large or complex buildings in our coverage area and look at them from the perspective of a firefighter, imagining what could go wrong. But then we also might think, “That building has a ...

The new chief of the Paul Smiths-Gabriels Volunteer Fire Department is young for a chief — 27 years old — but he’s been a ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Customs Department has procured eight firefighting vehicles valued at more than $2 million to mitigate ...

Navy researchers working on PFAS-free firefighting foams with no health risk Testing is still at a small scale, but U.S. Navy researchers are encouraged by their work to develop new firefighting foams ...

Dozens of factory workers were exposed to toxic chemicals within firefighting foam over decades, BBC File on 4 Investigates can reveal.

On Dec. 16, Doug Farris officially retired, ending a remarkable 51-year run with the Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department.

A fire in New Bedford injured a resident and a firefighter; complications arose from oxygen exposure and solar panels on the ...