Stevens County Fire District 1 will receive more than $710,000 through FEMA’s Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response, or SAFER, grant program.

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It comes to no surprise that the extreme temperatures and and labor experienced by firefighters take a toll on their cardiovascular health, and a new study from the American Heart Association ...

Iowa State University researchers and partners are working to learn about how modern fires impact firefighters’ health due to ...

Cancer has emerged as one of the top threats to the health of fire service members in recent years. Perhaps more frighteningly, cancer can develop many years after we leave the fire service. Current ...

It was my first fire after being assigned to a station out of recruit school. It was an exciting, adrenaline-pumping event. We believed that it was a routine room-and-contents fire in a two-story ...

In the wake of last week's deadly fire in Independence, Kansas, that claimed the lives of five people, four of whom were ...

Why: Fire departments are being asked to do more to protect firefighter health while balancing staffing, apparatus, training and other operational demands. The key challenges: deciding where to start, ...

Some Northeast Florida fire departments are getting rid of the emergency alarm systems inside their fire stations to save firefighters from stress. The St. Augustine Fire Department is one of them, ...