Nov. 2—OKLAHOMA CITY — Rep. David Smith, R-Arpelar, last week held an interim study to examine issues surrounding recruiting and retaining volunteer rural firefighters. The packed study was held ...
HELENA, Mont. — A slew of legislation aimed at retaining Montana’s rural firefighting capacity is making its way to the state Senate. Another bill, House Bill 127, would indirectly support rural ...
Fire Prevention Week is October 6-12 this year. The 4K teacher in my rural community will invite a volunteer firefighter into her classroom as she does each year so the kids get to see someone they ...
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - The Wisconsin Office of Rural Health released a new report this week, ‘The Reliability of Wisconsin’s Fire Services’. Sharing critical challenges that are risking the ...
East of Denver, across Colorado's Great Plains into Kansas, Interstate 70 unspools across miles of flat, open prairie like a numbing ribbon of asphalt. Here the horizon rests on a promise — that ...
MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - A leader in the Minot area firefighting community is preparing to close the final chapter on his career. After three decades of serving on his local rural fire department, Chief ...
(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 ...
A 25-year tradition among a fire department in Nebraska nearly ended after someone stole a Hamburglar head from a firefighter ...
A probationary firefighter at a rural fire department in Missouri had a unique experience when responding to her first fire on Monday. The Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District, located in the very ...
The volunteers discovered the theft when they arrived at the Coolongolook RFS shed to attend a car crash. Thieves stole hoses ...
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCSC) - A pair of deadly fires fought by the Goose Creek Rural Fire Department is prompting questions about emergency protocols and why the city’s main fire department was not ...