Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco ...

Providing on-site protection during a fire is a tiny part of what private firefighting companies do, executives told BI. Crews for on-site protection cost thousands per day. Companies in the space ...

Photo courtesy Indianapolis (IN) Fire Department PIO. For firefighters, when the tones drop, there is no warm-up, no easing into the situation, and no room for performance to suffer from fatigue.

No job faces more immediate life-or-death scenarios on a daily basis than firefighting. But even with advances in equipment and training, this brave profession still contends with substantial dangers ...