By Madison Wade, ABC10 A Rough and Ready Fire Department fire lieutenant is called a hero after taking a huge fall after being hit by heavy equipment while saving another firefighter's life while working the August Complex fires. Lt. Dave Hicks stopped a heavy piece … [Read more...]
Editor's Note: California state fire chief Thom Porter tells Scott Pelley of "60 Minutes" how the wildfires in his state have become more destructive since he started in 1999. Read more here. Butte County, California — Dramatic video released by the California Highway Patrol … [Read more...]
The Idaho Statesman One person is dead after a single-engine airplane fighting the Schill Fire crashed to the ground outside of Emmett on Tuesday evening, according to Idaho Fire Information, which is operated by the Bureau of Land Management. On Wednesday, BLM said pilot … [Read more...]
This is an update from the Dolan fire in California, near Big Sur. This is an evolving situation, and here is what they can confirm right now: A shelter deployment involving 15 Firefighters from the Dolan Fire occurred approximately at 0831 (today) on Tuesday, Sept 8, 2020, in … [Read more...]
By Karl Puckett, Great Falls Tribune Firefighters were forced to deploy fire shelters to avoid being engulfed by a rapidly moving fire front at a Montana wildfire Saturday, the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation said. "It did burn over them," said Kristin … [Read more...]
By Unian The Ukrainian military, together with the State Emergency Service, continue to fight large-scale forest and steppe fires. No enemy shelling has been reported over the past day, the Joint Forces Operation Command reported on Facebook on September 6. Wildfires … [Read more...]
A First-year Firefighter on the elite Helena Hot Shot Fire crew died early Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Idaho while returning from a fire. Firefighter Sara Madsen, 24 years old, of Tetonia, Idaho, was pronounced dead at the scene in that crash south of … [Read more...]
By Kym Kemp, Redheaded Blackbelt About 6 p.m., a firefighter working on the Hobo Fire north of Helena in Trinity County fell and possibly broke his femur just above the knee, according to a firefighter on the scene relaying information to dispatch over the scanner. The … [Read more...]
We regret to pass on that a Texas Firefighter was killed and another Firefighter was injured in the Line of Duty Monday battling a wildfire in the Northern California forest. A second Firefighter was injured and is being treated. The Firefighters were operating in Mendocino … [Read more...]
Firefighters in northern California say they are gaining control over historic, deadly wildfires that have burned more than one million acres. However, researchers and former firefighters working on a new study fear the responders battling the blazes are in danger of suffering … [Read more...]