Many of these jobs don’t require the use of the typical “fire” tools—the axe, the Halligan—but, instead, the smaller hand tools that are found in the toolbox on the workbench at the ...

A team of Colorado River Fire Rescue’s wildland firefighters is on the ground in northern Minnesota this week, helping to ...

Hand Tool Time Now let’s spend some time talking ... many times by allowing us to extinguish a small trash or sofa fire before the engine company reaches the location with the line.

Andrew Roach points out that, although firefighters who typically attack structure fires are rather prepared to defend structures in the wildland firefighting environment, they must familiarize ...

Fielded by the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, the PyroLance is a hand-held, ultra-high pressure piercing and firefighting tool designed to help firefighters safely fight hard-to-reach or hidden ...

In preparation for the upcoming fire season, the CAL FIRE Humboldt – Del Norte unit will be hosting the 17th annual Redwood ...

Fred Young Park in Plains was the place to be this past Saturday— especially if you were hoping to dunk your favorite ...

said Thomas. What the department needs, Thomas learned, is more wildland firefighting hand tools. While these tools are currently on brush trucks, the department wants them on every engine.

An update from the federal team coordinating the effort to put down the Camp House and Jenkins Creek Fires shows progress in ...

The L.A. County Fire Department will soon have a new pipeline for formerly imprisoned firefighters to join its ranks. The L.A ...

“I know there’s been other articles that have painted a picture of doom and gloom and despair,” said Jarrod Clinkenbeard, staff chief of the hand crew program for Cal Fire. “I don’t feel ...