The joint Eugene-Springfield Fire department will be dissolved, with the cities having two years to create independent services. The local firefighters' union and the fire chief expressed ...

New York City is handing out free spray caps that turn fire hydrants into legal, water-saving sprinklers this Fourth of July. 'He's in my car?': Dad whose baby was found 'hot to the touch' inside ...

This story has been updated to reflect new information from MPS about the number of schools that have fire sprinklers. After a massive fire spread at Lincoln Avenue Elementary School early June 30, ...

FITCHBURG, Wis. -- On Wednesday, Fire Fighters Local 311 released a letter to the Fitchburg Common Council asking the body to make "necessary and difficult choices" to properly fund the Fitchburg Fire ...

After 25 years in the fire service, I have learned that the negotiation table is not a battlefield. It is a mirror. It reflects the fears, pressures, hopes, and realities on both sides. I learned this ...

Los Angeles firefighters are on their sixth day of battling a fire at a massive warehouse near downtown that stores frozen food. Smoke has billowed from the warehouse, which was covered in solar ...

The Columbus firefighters' union alleges the city is overly reliant on suburban departments for emergency services. Suburban departments handle about 20% of fire and EMS calls for Columbus residents, ...

ALL RIGHT, DAN, THANKS FOR YOUR PERSPECTIVE. NOW TO THE HEADLINE BUILDINGS FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM. THE SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN FIRE AUTHORITY SAYS THE FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEM INSIDE THAT WAREHOUSE AND THE ...

Investigators are looking into why a sprinkler system failed to activate during the massive fire that destroyed Medline's distribution warehouse in Tracy. More than 24 hours after the fire began, ...

Fire officials said sprinkler systems were not operating during a five-alarm fire that destroyed a roughly 1 million-square-foot Medline medical supply facility in Tracy. The Medline facility is ...

Facing a $175 million budget gap that must be closed in just over six months, Mayor Katie Wilson and her team considered a novel approach: make the Fire Department self-funded. If voters signed off on ...

St. Louis Police Chief Robert Tracy, left, listens to discussion on Wed. April 29, 2026, seated next to Maj. Joseph Morici during a public St. Louis police board meeting at the downtown headquarters ...