Heavy smoke from a brush fire forced officials to close S.R. 19 south of Salt Springs on Saturday as firefighters worked to ...

OREGON (KTVZ) -- The USDA Forest Service has announced it will be hiring nearly 600 fire support positions in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. It says these positions are vital to wildfire preparedness ...

Despite the Trump administration’s public pronouncements that it has hired enough wildland firefighters, documents obtained by ProPublica show a high vacancy rate, as well as internal concern among ...

The U.S. Forest Service says a wildfire in the National Forest in northwest Montgomery County is fully contained, and there is no public threat.

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