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

(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLLEGE STATION – Thanks to a historic investment by the 89th Texas Legislature, Texas A&M Forest Service approved $164 million in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Firefighters from the Kent Fire Department in Jefferson County, Ind., practice a grain bin rescue in a simulator during training provided by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, the state’s corn ...

BRIMFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Department of Conservation and Recreation has awarded $117,000 to rural, call, and volunteer fire departments across the state to support training and prevent forest ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — As wildfire season approaches, the Bureau of Land Management is increasing readiness and bolstering rural firefighting efforts by transferring surplus BLM fire engines to local ...

Tuolumne Utilities District staff are touting the recent addition of four new untreated water draft points designated for rural firefighting, which they are calling a cornerstone of its newly-adopted ...