U.S. Forest Service firefighter Alan Gudino, right, shields his face while battling the Madre fire in San Luis Obispo County in July. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) The U.S. Forest Service has ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have been able to ...

A firefighter stormed into a burning apartment building in Southeast Washington, D.C., Wednesday and took off his own breathing mask to help rescue a senior citizen who had been ready to jump from a ...

BLAIR COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — A Blair County fire department has received a 16-thousand dollar grant to purchase equipment to help test mask fitting. The UPMC Altoona Foundation awarded the grant to the ...

Volunteer firefighters across Talbot County will soon benefit from new technology designed to keep them safer on the job. You must be logged in to react. Click any reaction to login. You must be ...

Firefighter gear, including breathing masks, can retain a substantial amount of “forever chemicals” that have been linked to cancer development.A simple, nondestructive wipe test found all evaluated ...

The U.S. Forest Service has announced it is reversing a ban on federal firefighters wearing masks, and will give crews protective N95s as they battle increasingly intense fires across the nation. For ...