A new funding effort is underway to train hundreds of formerly incarcerated men and women to become firefighters. The ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – At the Springer Correctional Center in northern New Mexico, women inmates are getting hands-on training in wildland firefighting. The New Mexico Corrections Department’s recently ...

Inspired by her own experience, Mikaela Balkind created the training to empower young women to join the wildfire profession, ...

When Linda Wadleigh was a forestry major at Utah State University she came upon her first summer job as a firefighter, a role that led to a 30-year career in wildland fire management with the U.S.

In order to become a wildland firefighter, you have to pass the pack test.This requires trainees walk three miles in less than 45 minutes while carrying a 45-po ...

A group of 14 women, some of whom were inmates or former foster kids, became the first all-female class to graduate from an LA County firefighter training program.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will welcome 40 students Monday to its brand new firefighter training facility in Merced County as part of a multiyear push to bolster its ...

Jason Moore explains how various technology platforms, from virtual- or augmented-reality, AI or digital twins, can enhance ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill — Two women firefighters from the Galena Fire Department recently attended the yearly training event hosted by the Fire Service Women of Illinois at the Illinois Fire Service Institute ...

A group of 14 women, some of whom were inmates or former foster kids, became the first all-female class to graduate from an ...