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A national firefighter labor shortage is making it harder to suppress massive wildfires across the West.
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The company said Saturday that it locked out about 125 firefighters and a facility about 170 miles away in central Washington.
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Larch Corrections Center in Southwest Washington will close this week, despite efforts from staff and some elected leaders to pause the decision many say took them by surprise this summer.
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Firefighters around the country are concerned that gear laced with PFAS, a group of toxic industrial compounds, could be one reason for cancer among their ranks.
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You probably no longer bat an eye when an electric car passes by on the road. More novel battery-powered vehicles are soon joining the parade to help operators achieve their sustainability goals. Now, several Pacific Northwest fire departments have ordered their first electric fire trucks.
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A heat wave is developing in much of California but winds are light as firefighters battle a wildfire that poses a threat to a famous grove of giant sequoias and a small community in Yosemite National Park.
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For years California, Florida, Oregon, Washington, and other states have relied on incarcerated men and women to fight wildfires. They are trained to perform grueling work while earning just a few dollars, sometimes as little as $2 a day. Now a nonprofit group is helping incarcerated people who have been trained as firefighters secure careers in the profession once they leave prison.
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Fire chiefs and union leaders in Pierce County say about 30 percent of their departments or membership have yet to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and they worry that a vaccinate mandate will prompt people to quit.
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State and federal agencies are working to build their capacity for the use of prescribed fire to manage forests. That process began Sunday in Cle Elum as…
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Summer this year in the Pacific Northwest is once again expected to be hotter and drier than normal. That means higher potential for wildfires from July…