Wildfire activity is on the upswing in Colorado and across the U.S., and state firefighting and incident management agencies are stepping up their efforts to keep up with the changes. “In the past, ...

Adrienne Freeman, the Public Affairs Specialist for the United States Forest Service, joins Action News Now morning anchor ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have been able to ...

Neither the House nor the Senate included funding for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service in new spending bills. The Interior ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Thousands of fire fighters across the state are working endless hours to contain wildfires. The local college offers a program preparing students to face the front lines ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

A firefighter moves hazard fuel while working on the Bear Gulch fire this summer. Many in the wildland fire community believe the leadership team managing the fire sent crews into an ambush by federal ...

Burk Minor, the executive director and co-founder of the Boise-based Wildland Firefighter Foundation, isn’t much for talking about himself. He’ll make public appearances on occasion, but the accolades ...

A 60-year-old Keizer man died Aug. 24 while fighting the Bivens Creek Fire in southwest Montana. Ruben Gonzales Romero was working on fire suppression for Monmouth-based TJ Forestry Contracting when ...