Seventeen pickup trucks fitted with skid units for enhanced firefighting capabilities. “With fire season just around the corner in West Virginia, it’s perfect timing to get this new equipment ...

The Oklahoma Fire Department Air Tactical Unit (ATU) completed a training course this week enhancing its wildland firefighting and rescue capabilities.

HFD said at 3:38 p.m., a second wildland fire started in the nearby vicinity. Seven units, along with the federal fire department and ARFF also responded to this incident.

Wildland fires can send burning embers miles ahead of the main fire that can start new fires. That’s one-way fires spread. They don’t just spread from brush to brush and tree to tree.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – As firefighters across the region battle both heat and fire – including a wildland fire in Clackamas County and structure fires in Portland – it becomes especially ...

A wildland strike team fought a fire Sunday afternoon in the hills south of Kennewick off highways 395 and 397. Tri-City Herald staff This story was originally published September 1, 2024 at 4:29 PM.