More dollars are en route to nearly 200 struggling small-town fire departments in the Buckeye State. Ohio State Fire Marshal ...

The Sterling and Rock Falls fire departments’ shared plan to build a regional fire training tower is moving closer to reality ...

Hempfield is planning to build a center that will give township volunteer firefighters a space for hands-on training in their service area. That will allow firefighters to still respond quickly to ...

Remote rural fire departments operate largely on determination and generosity. That’s been the case for more than 20 years with the Rock Creek Volunteer Fire Department. The all-volunteer department, ...

To stay relevant, firefighters must see themselves as career-long students. Learning should not stop at graduation from the recruit academy; instead, graduation marks the beginning of a firefighter’s ...

HELENA, Mont. — A slew of legislation aimed at retaining Montana’s rural firefighting capacity is making its way to the state Senate. Another bill, House Bill 127, would indirectly support rural ...

(TNS) — Boulder County this week awarded about $2 million to mainly rural fire districts in the third round of fall grants from the Emergency Services Sales and Use Tax. The grants, approved Tuesday ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - The Wisconsin Office of Rural Health released a new report this week, ‘The Reliability of Wisconsin’s Fire Services’. Sharing critical challenges that are risking the ...

Small rural fire departments across North Carolina are struggling to recruit volunteer firefighters and pay for the rising cost of equipment. That’s prompting the state legislature to look more ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management Boise District fire and aviation program provided 109 hand-held, two-way radios to 18 rural fire organizations that fight wildland fires. The radios, provided ...