Dangerous, frontline firefighting jobs may get a bit safer thanks to new heat-sensing sensors designed by NASA. The sensors ...

Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

With wildfire season coming soon, NASA researchers are attempting to give firefighters additional safety measures through low-cost thermal sensors that are installed on fire bulldozers. These sensors ...

With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA's FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Fort Hunter Liggett recently provided three heavy equipment operators and two firefighters for a 12-day deployment to support the Madre Fire in the Los Padres National Forest’s ...

The sustained, year-round efforts of wildland firefighters save countless acres of timber; billions of dollars in property damage; and, most importantly, human lives. The U.S. has recorded 1.5 million ...

Firefighters in southern Idaho stopped the forward progression of the Blue Ridge Fire overnight, as crews continued working ...

Fire season” might conjure images of crown fires jumping through canopies of Ponderosa pines in the Rockies or palm trees of Southern California desperately pointing toward the Pacific while Santa Ana ...

WALLING, Tenn. (WSMV) - Update: Around 10:40 p.m. the White County Office of Emergency Management reported that the Cash Dollar Cove and Hawkins fire is under control at this time. PREVIOUS: The White ...

SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - Firefighters in Smith County are using specialized dozers equipped with plows and blades to help fight fires. Battalion Chief Raymond Murillo of Smith County Emergency ...