Fighting huge blaze in Ovid complicated by extreme cold, winds and firefighters running out of water forcing them to truck it ...

The latest NIST study provides more information about exposure risk for firefighters from their firefighting protective gear.

Firefighters battled the flames that destroyed six buildings for more than 11 hours in frigid temperatures, Ovid Fire Chief Timothy Westlake said.

Miller says it was so cold the water froze right away, making every step crucial on the ground and on their ladders. Extra ...

Firefighters are already exposed to many risks to their well-being. The gear they wear and tools they use to keep themselves ...

The findings revealed that structural firefighting gloves significantly hindered dexterity compared to general protective gloves, although both types did not show a notable difference in grip ...

Los Angeles and Ventura Counties are forecast to receive 0.75 to one inches of rain, which may result in debris flows or ...

Less than an inch of rain fell in most areas, but it was enough to loosen Los Angeles hillsides burned bare by the recent ...

Crews spent much of the past week removing vegetation, shoring up slopes and reinforcing roads in devastated areas of the ...

LOS ANGELES — What haunts firefighter Brett Klemme is not the flames. It’s the photographs. On Jan. 7, the day the wildfires of Los Angeles ignited and forced mass evacuations, Klemme recalled ...

There was one bar of cell phone service that fleeing residents and approaching firefighters were competing for. By the time he arrived at 2 p.m., Sarvis had lost reception. Before his phone went ...

Firefighters on Friday battled several blazes in Southern California ahead of a rainy weekend that was expected to bring much-needed reprieve as deadly infernos raged in Los Angeles County for the ...