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A group of US Forest Service firemen walk down a road after a fire in the Los Padres National Forest in California. A new federal organization called the U.S. Wildland Fire Service has been ...

Congress recently passed a bill that does not include funding for the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service. Credit: Kevin Carter via Getty Images The Trump administration last week established a new ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity. This week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the initial steps were complete ...

Stephen Helzer practices deploying his protective fire shelter during a training simulation at the Colorado Wildland Fire and Incident Management Academy at Cheyenne Mountain State Park in Colorado ...

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a unification of programs previously part of six DOI agencies and offices.

Alyssa Chiappa led Tappan Zee in assists, digs and aces. Tappan Zee made the Section 1 final in 2025 for the first time. Chiappa was named to the all-state team. This year's 2025 girls volleyball ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. For decades, firefighters facing some ...

For decades, federal firefighters have trudged and parachuted into wildfires with only “a bandana and a prayer,” as the saying goes, to protect them from inhaling dangerous toxins. Meanwhile, studies ...

Before Anders Holch Povlsen was a billionaire fashion tycoon, he was a boy on a family vacation. The particular holiday in question brought the Povlsen family to Glenfeshie Lodge; it was a trip that ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

The Chiappa Rhino revolver “flipped the script” on the wheelgun market when it was introduced in 2010. From its internal hammer connected to an external “cocking lever” to its slim hexagonal cylinder ...