The Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to deploy unmanned firefighting robots and other specialized vehicles as part ...

LOS ANGELES − The death toll from a devastating series of fires in Los Angeles County rose to 16, officials announced, as air ...

A Stewartsville-Chamblissburg fire apparatus slid off the road forcing firefighter to hike up a mountain road to protect a ...

Ocean water can be used in extreme cases to fight wildfires, but freshwater is preferred due to equipment corrosion, soil damage, and logistical challenges.

The department said hot coffee was used as a quick substitute for de-icer to thaw out frozen equipment until the real thing ...

Firefighters have taken the rare but not unusual move of scooping up ocean water to help battle the flames as wildfires rage ...

Sea water, in theory, could be used to help a fire. But, its salty components can do more harm than good, which is why ...

Why did water hydrants run dry in the midst of a conflagration? City officials stressed that the shortage was due to low ...

The Kremlin has been discussing Donald Trump's claims that a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin is being set up.

• Warnings for days: The immediate causes of the fires were not clear yet, but officials had been cautioning for days that ...

Air quality regulators have also thrown obstacles in the way of prescribed burns, a fire mitigation practice that once was routinely used to reduce the fuel for wildfires and create defensible spaces ...

The UK and other Nato member states are sending 30,000 FPV drones to Ukraine in a boost to European security and to help the war-hit country to fight Russian aggression. At such a critical moment in ...