Last week, a 20-person crew of Massachusetts wildland firefighters was sent to assist in putting out significant wildfires in ...

Alaska wildfire crews are gaining ground thanks to rain, but dry fuels and over 4,600 lightning strikes this week have ...

Local firefighters have been sent to Alaska to battle a significant wildfire in the far northwestern state as part of a ...

A lightning-sparked fire that has burned about 2,000 acres of Arctic Alaska tundra is the biggest wildfire on the North Slope ...

The majority of incidents were “just small grass fires” that the fire department quickly extinguished, an official said.

Cooler, wetter weather is helping slow wildfire growth across Alaska, but smoke and evacuation alerts remain in effect as ...

The thing about the “United States” is that — until recently — it was part of our national ethos to look after one another.

Twenty-nine homes, along with 34 other structures, have been lost in the fires near Healy since they began last month, ...

Cody Smeaton, a call firefighter for Westport, is currently deployed to Alaska. He joins a crew from DCR and MassWildlife fighting wildfires in the state's interior. A Westport firefighter is among a ...

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

Eighteen Connecticut residents and two from Rhode Island mobilized to help fight wildfires in Alaska, according to state ...

The 2,000-acre fire and others north of the Brooks Range fit a pattern of increasing wildfires in the treeless landscape.