Anyone who works in or has been around the fire service has noticed that attracting and retaining firefighters has become one of the biggest challenges in the field today. In 1995, when I first exited ...

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 ...

The forecast for a hotter-than-normal summer has Westerners on edge, especially with up to a quarter of all U.S. federal wildland firefighter jobs currently unfilled. Summer fire season is almost here ...

When getting to the stage of my fire service career where I wanted to become a captain, I didn’t truly understand what I needed to do. I thought I did, but I didn’t. I was convinced, even though I had ...

By the end of 2025, NERIS has been implemented across all states, streamlining fire incident reporting with faster data ...