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 ...

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 ...

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

Firefighters are trained to recognize smoke, because smoke often appears long before visible flame. We encourage all of you to view your personal cardiovascular health in the same way. Heart attacks, ...

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Pasco County Fire Rescue is celebrating the start of a new schedule change. They said the "D-Shift" will benefit employees and people in the community. PCFR Chief Ruan ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

The Virginia Beach City Council green-lighted a plan to phase in a reduction in firefighters' work weeks from 56 to 48 hours.