CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A new partnership is exploring ways to provide hands-on training to rural fire departments and EMTs that they might not otherwise receive. Wellmark Foundation has announced ...

Trustees for Park County Rural Fire District #1 will meet Thursday to potentially appoint an interim fire chief.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLLEGE STATION – Thanks to a historic investment by the 89th Texas Legislature, Texas A&M Forest Service approved $164 million in ...

A new four-story Fire and Safety Training (FAST) tower has opened at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa. The $2.1 million facility provides realistic live-fire and other training for Iowa's fire departments ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — As wildfire season approaches, the Bureau of Land Management is increasing readiness and bolstering rural firefighting efforts by transferring surplus BLM fire engines to local ...

(TNS) — Boulder County this week awarded about $2 million to mainly rural fire districts in the third round of fall grants from the Emergency Services Sales and Use Tax. The grants, approved Tuesday ...

BRIMFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Department of Conservation and Recreation has awarded $117,000 to rural, call, and volunteer fire departments across the state to support training and prevent forest ...

Firefighters from the Kent Fire Department in Jefferson County, Ind., practice a grain bin rescue in a simulator during training provided by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, the state’s corn ...