A Stewartsville-Chamblissburg fire apparatus slid off the road forcing firefighter to hike up a mountain road to protect a ...

Ocean water can be used in extreme cases to fight wildfires, but freshwater is preferred due to equipment corrosion, soil damage, and logistical challenges.

Sea water, in theory, could be used to help a fire. But, its salty components can do more harm than good, which is why ...

Firefighters have taken the rare but not unusual move of scooping up ocean water to help battle the flames as wildfires rage ...

Why did water hydrants run dry in the midst of a conflagration? City officials stressed that the shortage was due to low ...

The Kremlin has been discussing Donald Trump's claims that a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin is being set up.

In order to reach remote fires in the State Responsibility Area, CAL FIRE maintains a fleet of firefighting aircraft, many of ...

The Rose Bowl, though, is currently serving as an emergency response center for Pasadena Police and Fire, as well as a ...

• Warnings for days: The immediate causes of the fires were not clear yet, but officials had been cautioning for days that ...

Air quality regulators have also thrown obstacles in the way of prescribed burns, a fire mitigation practice that once was routinely used to reduce the fuel for wildfires and create defensible spaces ...