The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Equipment Technology Committee recommends that fire shelters manufactured prior to 2006 be removed from service after serious degradation was found ...

U.S. Northern Command has activated military cargo planes equipped to drop retardant as an intensifying peak wildfire season stretches the U.S. Forest Service air tanker fleet. Two C-130 Hercules ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — For Soldiers assigned to the Wyoming National Guard’s Training Center Command, understanding how a wildfire moves can mean the difference between a controlled response and a dangerous ...

“On behalf of our cooperating agencies, the NMAC would like to thank the U.S. military for their assistance in protecting lives, property, and critical cultural and natural resources,” Josh Simmons, ...

Wildfires across the western United States are burning with an intensity that can overwhelm suppression crews, and multiple studies link recent increases in fire weather and burned area to a warming, ...

A group of US Forest Service firemen walk down a road after a fire in the Los Padres National Forest in California. A new federal organization called the U.S. Wildland Fire Service has been ...