The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Few photographers can claim to know as much about forest fires as Aaron Colussi. For the past decade, the ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have been able to ...

Stephen Helzer practices deploying his protective fire shelter during a training simulation at the Colorado Wildland Fire and Incident Management Academy at Cheyenne Mountain State Park in Colorado ...

As early as 2021, government officials were alerted to the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in pants ...

For decades, firefighters facing some of the state’s most destructive wildfires worked without proper masks or respirators, despite evidence showing long-term health risks from wildfire smoke. That’s ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...