Fire Chief

As the state of California set a record this year with two million acres burned, San Francisco Fire Department’s Pablo Siguenza is speaking to the preparedness of the state fire departments and offers message of safety and awareness for residents in helping prevent future wildfires.

Three people were killed when a single-engine plane crashed while attempting to land at San Antonio International Airport, officials say.

Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California as the state’s biggest utility began another round of fire-prevention blackouts Tuesday that could leave millions of people without electricity, some for five days or longer. The shut-offs, aimed at keeping windblown electrical equipment from sparking wildfires, came as fire crews raced to contain two major blazes in Northern and Southern California before...

Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas updates reporters on the Saddleridge wildfire, which has burned at least 4,000 acres north of Los Angeles.

A woman has been arrested on charges of beating a 75-year-old man to death and torching his Long Island house to cover up the crime.

A Long Beach woman has been arrested and charged with murder and arson in connection with a deadly house fire on Long Island last year, police said. Katherine Creag reports.

Facing pressure to take action after the latest mass shooting in the U.S., Ohio’s Republican governor urged the GOP-led state Legislature to pass laws requiring background checks for nearly all gun sales and allowing courts to restrict firearms access to people perceived as threats. Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday Ohio needs to do more while balancing people’s rights to own...

A crowd that gathered to remember nine people shot dead outside a Dayton, Ohio, bar interrupted a speech by Gov. Mike DeWine with screams of “do something.” Twenty-seven people were also injured in the mass shooting.

A 4-year-old girl who was run over by a lifeguard truck at a Coronado beach Monday was released from Rady Children’s Hospital Tuesday afternoon.

Three fire officials in a Jersey Shore resort community have resigned in the wake of a state-led investigation.

A 4-year-old girl who was run over by a lifeguard truck at a Coronado beach Monday was released from Rady Children’s Hospital Tuesday afternoon.

A New Jersey man is being credited with helping save a swimmer who got stuck in a current on Independence Day

Volunteer firefighters in suburban New York have rescued a dog who was 13 feet inside a drain pipe

For Southern California, using grazing goats is a solution spreading like wildfire. The County of Los Angeles Fire Department’s Forestry Division is using these grass-munchers as part of their fire hazard reduction project.

The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft. Days into the flooding, muddy water was still lapping at almost 80 flooded buildings at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, some inundated by up...

A Massachusetts firefighter police say walked nude into a Rhode Island convenience store because he thought it was legal has been placed on leave. Police responded to a 7-Eleven in Middletown at about 3 p.m. April 3 for a report of a naked customer. The owner said the man with a “smile on his face” purchased a soda, and left...

A firefighter who sued to keep a beard he grew for religious reasons has shaved it off after a judge denied his request.

A space heater is being investigated as the cause of a fire that ripped through a Bronx apartment building early Wednesday, injuring more than a half-dozen people, some children, and sending some residents fleeing for their lives.

A New Jersey firefighter has filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that he is being forced to shave a beard he says he grew for religious reasons.

A man was killed in a fire at a senior center in Newark. Drew Wilder reports.