All news on the topic: Firefighters

Wildfires burning in Georgia and Florida have destroyed homes, threatened more residences, forced evacuations, and closed roads as thousands of acres continue to burn on April 24.

Rapidly spreading wildfires in southern Georgia destroyed numerous homes and led to hundreds of evacuations. On Wednesday, Governor Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency, resulting in road closures and burn bans.

British police have detained two men following a suspected antisemitic arson attack in which multiple ambulances owned by a Jewish volunteer rescue organization were set ablaze in north London.

A bus caught fire in western Switzerland on Tuesday, resulting in at least six fatalities and injuring five other people, in what police indicated might have been an intentional act.

After a ProPublica article disclosed that the U.S. Forest Service had been providing clothing to wildland firefighters for years that it knew contained possibly hazardous “forever chemicals,” the agency has ceased distributing those garments. It also states that it will direct its equipment manufacturers to refrain from using PFAS in the future.

A fire that erupted Friday evening on a cargo ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles — requiring more than 180 firefighters to battle the blaze — is now “substantially contained,” according to a news release Saturday from the seaport.

Cara Stapleton, a recent graduate of  the Boston Fire Academy,  was observed by police punching a man in the face two to three times as he lay on his back in the parking lot outside of Chantey Restaurant in Quincy,

A crew of firefighters in California managed to free a mischievous dog that became trapped underneath a shipping container while scampering after a rabbit Saturday night.

Executive salaries are soaring at the 9/11 museum, even as it keeps losing money, angering families of victims

Fire personnel, assisted by aircraft, rushed to contain a wind-fueled wildfire that broke out Thursday morning in the hills by Interstate 5 in the northwest part of Los Angeles County, authorities reported

A clumsy woman from California was rescued from within a Chuck E. Cheese arcade game after she wedged her arm into a tight tube, all as a group of bewildered kids looked on

A significant fire consumed an old New Jersey synagogue early Friday morning, but a rabbi and his family of six were "fortunate" to escape the blaze

North Babylon Fire Chief Peter Alt has been stripped of his duties while an investigation is underway following outrage over the viral TikTok video posted Monday showing him hurling obscenities at the child, a statement released Tuesday by the volunteer fire company confirmed.

Brave New York City firefighter Matthew Goicochea, known for rescuing a woman in a wheelchair from a burning building, tragically lost his life on Thursday. He crashed his moped on the FDR Drive and was hit by a driver who fled the scene

A firefighter in Maryland doused the field with "gallons of water" at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, causing the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts to call off their baseball game on Thursday evening, according to team officials

Fox News contributor Johnny Joey Jones’ first book spent eight weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list — yet he was shocked when his latest debuted at No. 1. In “Behind the Badge: Answering the Call to Serve on America’s Homefront,” Jones talks to “nine first responders who’ve all had an impact on my life” — most “lifelong friends, some family, and all of them heroes to me” — to get a “raw, unfiltered look into the duty they fulfill and the burden they carry,” as he writes.

Four people were injured when a fast-burning blaze ripped through a Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, apartment building Saturday, officials said.

In Florida, the "Nail Bandit," John Allan Starnes, aged 72, was taken into custody on Thursday after nearly two years of deliberately sabotaging fire rescue vehicles by positioning sharp items under their tires in Okeechobee County

The fire department's union stated that the state called for "highly trained swift water rescue teams" on July 2 and July 3, but Chief Joel G. Baker turned down both of these requests

The family of Idaho gunman Wess Roley—who fatally shot two firefighters after reportedly luring them to the woods with a brushfire on Sunday—has spoken out, stating they "do not understand" how his terrible act occurred

Lieutenant Jonathan Rivera, a father of three who recently completed his college education after leaving high school at the age of 16, was among three EMS personnel out of 84 to be promoted to Captain at the FDNY ceremony held at St. John's University

The tragic attack on firefighters in Idaho on Sunday took place on the same date as when the local fire department burned down a notorious neo-Nazi compound during a training exercise in 2001

Gunfire broke out around 2 p.m. local time and continues to this moment as emergency responders reached the site of a fire at Canfield Mountain near Coeur d'Alene, the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office reported