Dangerous, frontline firefighting jobs may get a bit safer thanks to new heat-sensing sensors designed by NASA. The sensors ...

CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — 73 volunteer fire departments across the state, including two dozen in Central Illinois, are ...

Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA's FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to ...

In this file photo taken Feb. 27, 2024, volunteers from six area fire departments and the U.S. Forestry Service help extinguish a grass fire that destroyed two ...

The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM) has announced the recipients of the 2026 Small Equipment Grant Program.

Columbus firefighters union and a resident say the city's fire division has staffing and equipment issues, but the division ...