A new soy-based firefighting foam offers a potential alternative for firefighters across the country who have long relied on ...

The current firefighting protective ensemble is heavy, thick, multilayered, and it exacerbates the challenge of thermoregulation due to its limited permeability and insulative properties. A person's ...

Firefighting maintenance increases downtime, costs, and stress while masking deeper reliability and planning issues. Reactive ...

Captain Stephen Orsini's article in Fire Engineering Magazine discusses modern firefighting and the need for continuous training.

Fire trucks are cool. They're loud, red and form an integral part of what's easily the best emergency service. But do you know what's a step better than a regular fire truck? A firefighting plane. And ...

Dozens of factory workers were exposed to toxic chemicals within firefighting foam over decades, BBC File on 4 Investigates can reveal.

President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency, a move some former federal officials warn could increase the risk of ...

A newly recruited firefighter in Los Angeles put out a major fire even before being formally introduced at a news conference. That new recruit is a robot. The Thermite RS3, the first robotic ...

The new chief of the Paul Smiths-Gabriels Volunteer Fire Department is young for a chief — 27 years old — but he’s been a ...