Wildland Firefighter The Voice of the Wildland Firefighter

REMS training with West Metro Fire Rescue     West Metro Fire Rescue – West Metro has launched a REMS team- a rapid extraction/extrication team- specially trained and assigned to rescue firefighters injured during wildland fires. The team’s first assignment ...

Firefighters hope for progress before dry weather returns     DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Fire crews are hoping to make some progress stopping the wildfire burning in southwestern Colorado before drier weather makes it easier for it to spread. The ...

Approximately 300 firefighters are on the scene     SMITH VALLEY, Nev. (AP) — A wildfire burning in northern Nevada is threatening homes and has prompted authorities to issue a voluntary evacuation order. The fire has burned about 1.8 square ...

Evacuation orders lifted for several communities     LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A wildfire that has burned about 31 square miles (80.3 square kilometers) in southern Wyoming is now 85 percent contained thanks to rainy weather over the past couple ...

Fires claimed 106 people     LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president and prime minister have attended a Mass in a rural town to mark the anniversary of a wildfire that killed 66 people. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and ...

Wildfire blackened 51 square miles     By The Associated Press Hundreds of Colorado residents who were forced to evacuate from a wildfire were allowed to return home Friday, while crews in Wyoming were encouraged when a fire there moved ...

Wildfire north of Durango is in the center of drought region     By JAMES ANDERSON, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The threat of hot, windy weather and thunderstorms Thursday posed more problems for firefighters battling a Colorado wildfire that ...

State is still recovering from last year’s fire season     By MATT VOLZ, Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana is about to enter another potentially severe fire season with a paltry $4 million in a firefighting reserve fund ...

Wildfire has burned 170 acres     CLINTS WELL, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say firefighters have stopped the forward progress of a wildfire that prompted dozens of homes in a north-central Arizona forest to be put on pre-evacuation notice. The ...

Move is latest in closures of forests and parks     ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s most populous county is closing open space areas on the east side of the Sandia Mountains due to high fire danger. The closures ...