The St. John’s Regional Fire Department (SJRFD) announced Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 the upcoming transition to PFAS-free bunker gear for all its active firefighters. A news release notes that the ...
"South African firefighters landed in Canada to make their way to LA to help put out the fire!" text on the video reads. The post was liked more than 6,000 times in five days. The video of South ...
Private firefighters aren't doing what you likely think they are — not exactly. Reports of wealthy homeowners in the Los Angeles area paying private firefighters thousands of dollars per day ...
Firefighters say they arrived within minutes of the call and found heavy fire on the top floor, in the cockloft, and along the roof. According to FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods, crews were ...
Longview, TX Fire Captain Clint Steelman takes us through his gear: What works, what he carries on every call, and why. If you’d like to help young firefighters choose their gear setup, please ...
To the editor: Your article on the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A.’s wildfires highlights a deeper crisis of misplaced priorities in California. While it’s heartening to see the public ...
A Canadian Super Scooper plane was hit by a drone while flying over the Palisades Fire. The plane is expected to fly again, but as KNBC's David Biggar reports, the FAA is investigating as flying ...
(Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) As Los Angeles battles another wave of catastrophic wildfires, firefighters are on the front lines, risking their lives to protect communities.
Murillo is a former inmate, and he fought fires in a firefighting program while he was in prison. "It's like risk reward: do you want to live that old lifestyle and suffer the consequences or do ...
“It’s not uncommon for us to lose water in our firefight. It’s just that early in the game was surprising,” the firefighter said, to which Gibson responded “Because yeah, it wasn’t there. And no one ...
The wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles, CA, have made national news and devastated a huge swath of the city. As many of you know, Nerdist is based in LA. Specifically our main offices are ...