HANCOCK COUNTY — Not long ago, many of the fire departments in the county relied heavily on volunteer firefighters to handle operations. The cost to train a firefighter even on a volunteer basis, ...

The conference report to H.R. 4310, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, would reauthorize the FIRE and SAFER grant programs and the U.S. Fire Administration through FY 2017.

WASHINGTON – A day after the downtown Buffalo blaze that claimed the life of a city firefighter, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday warned that federal funding for programs that aid ...

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that seeks to combine major wildland firefighting programs within 90 days, in an effort to streamline how the federal government approaches fires.