Aerial mapping estimates the County Road 169 Fire area at 5,599 acres.

The Idaho Capital Sun reports a new round of state budget cuts approved by the Idaho Legislature’s budget committee will likely force the state to hire fewer seasonal firefighters and cut back on fire ...

Sep. 5—As the U.S. Forest Service makes cuts that threaten to hobble federal firefighting capabilities, California is entering into a pact with other western states and parts of Canada to beef up ...

Frontrunner locations for where two ground-based crews might be based are Lander and Douglas.

More than 140 firefighters from 19 fire departments in four counties were called upon to battle a grass fire that Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Chief Curt Vandertie said was the biggest wildland fire ...

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a unification of programs previously part of six DOI agencies and offices.

The Forest Service has known for years that "forever chemicals" were in some of the equipment for wildland firefighters.

The Department of the Interior has opened applications for the first-ever Director of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a newly created role that will oversee and coordinate the nation’s wildland fire ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) —The Deschutes National Forest of the USDA Forest Service said Monday it is now hiring for several seasonal positions, including wildland firefighters and smokejumpers "We are ...

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has formally announced the establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service (USWFS), a development that came the same week that the U.S. Congress declined to fund ...