A wildfire burning tundra and black spruce in northwest Alaska grew to about 500 acres Friday and got within a mile of a ...

Climatologists are predicting an active fire season after a dry winter. Firefighters around the west are standing ready. That ...

Wildfire crews responded to the Kopsheut Fire near Ambler on Thursday afternoon, sending aircraft and smokejumpers.

Somewhere deep in the North Cascades, lightning strikes a parched mountainside, igniting a wildfire. Someone spots the blaze and calls emergency services. The tip gets routed to a U.S. Forest Service ...

With the massive Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach this weekend, here’s a look at one of the most amazing jobs involving aviation there is in the West. If fighting wildfires across the West weren’t ...

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REDMOND, Ore — REDMOND, Ore. -- Back when Mark Corbet started out as a smokejumper, his parents used to ask him when he planned on getting a real job. Twenty-nine years later, at age 52, Corbet is one ...