Six Smith County volunteer fire departments recently received a total of $170,000 in grant money from the Texas A&M Forest Service through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program ...

Ohio's long history of firefighting is memorialized at the Western Reserve Fire Museum in Downtown Cleveland. Its centuries-old roots have contributed to a system that is struggling to serve all ...

Sometimes it's a little thing — a small detail — that reveals a much larger problem. For volunteer firefighter John Hooper, who has been with the Country Fire Authority (CFA) at Strathbogie in ...

Wealthier volunteer departments, like Gates Mills, pictured here, have more than one engine to respond to a fire. In poorer and rural areas, it's difficult to maintain a single engine. The smell of ...

Small rural fire departments across North Carolina are struggling to recruit volunteer firefighters and pay for the rising cost of equipment. That’s prompting the state legislature to look more ...

Kansas struggles to find younger volunteer firefighters ...