(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — A new funding effort is underway to train hundreds or formerly incarcerated men and women to ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – At the Springer Correctional Center in northern New Mexico, women inmates are getting hands-on training in wildland firefighting. The New Mexico Corrections Department’s recently ...

A group of 14 women, some of whom were inmates or former foster kids, became the first all-female class to graduate from an LA County firefighter training program.

Mikaela Balkind, a UM graduate student, created the training to empower young women to join the wildfire profession, where women make up less than 15% of the national workforce.

When Linda Wadleigh was a forestry major at Utah State University she came upon her first summer job as a firefighter, a role that led to a 30-year career in wildland fire management with the U.S.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will welcome 40 students Monday to its brand new firefighter training facility in Merced County as part of a multiyear push to bolster its ...

In order to become a wildland firefighter, you have to pass the pack test.This requires trainees walk three miles in less than 45 minutes while carrying a 45-po ...

Jason Moore explains how various technology platforms, from virtual- or augmented-reality, AI or digital twins, can enhance ...

A group of 14 women, some of whom were inmates or former foster kids, became the first all-female class to graduate from an ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill — Two women firefighters from the Galena Fire Department recently attended the yearly training event hosted by the Fire Service Women of Illinois at the Illinois Fire Service Institute ...