The National Fire Academy (NFA) is inviting applications for its Advanced Science of Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Response course. This 6-day intensive course is designed for ...

Climate change is putting a growing number of people at risk of wildfire in the Great Plains and the Western U.S. The number of firefighters and fire management professionals has not kept up with that ...

SEATTLE — Ridership aboard Washington State Ferries (WSF) is on track to exceed last year's total by hundreds of thousands of people. The system carried 18.7 million in 2023 and is projected to carry ...

Firefighters can benefit from various training technology platforms that allow them to take part in repeated scenarios that improve training, safety and increase knowledge retention. Digital twins of ...

COLUMBIA, MD - UL Research Institutes and its Fire Safety Research Institute announced a new firefighter training course to address the threats found in the wildland urban interface, also known as WUI ...

To stay relevant, firefighters must see themselves as career-long students. Learning should not stop at graduation from the recruit academy; instead, graduation marks the beginning of a firefighter’s ...

A firefighting training program designed primarily for women hopes to diversify the industry and to attract more people to firefighting overall. Climate change is putting a growing number of people at ...