The chief of the new department says the added staff will decrease run times and save lives, but it comes with a cost.

Already, the staff layoffs have caused concerns. Head Start preschools in Washington state had been awaiting approval to ...

• King Yeta III of Barotseland and the Lozi people in what is now Zambia abolishes the corvée on April 1 in the British ...

A fire in an apartment downtown forced fire crews to cut off power and shut divert traffic Tuesday morning. Several residents ...

Two people were airlifted to regional medical facilities after suffering injuries in a house fire in Lynchburg on Wednesday ...

The fire at Sims Bark has been burning since about 1 p.m. and no one is hurt, according to a Jackson County Sheriff's ...

That money came from a $4 million grant program by the Illinois State Fire Marshal. The Small Equipment Grant Program helped 178 other fire departments and EMS providers across the state.

Three people have been displaced and are receiving assistance from the Red Cross. The fire is under investigation by the Fire Marshal’s Office. There is no other information at this time.

which occurred around 6 p.m. March 15 in the 200 block of South Wallace Boulevard, sparked in an upstairs room used for sewing, said Steve Wallgren, fire marshal for Ypsilanti Township.

A mulch fire in southern Indiana sent large plumes of smoke across the area on Friday. The Crothersville-Vernon Township Fire Department asked people to avoid the area of US31 and I-65 around 3 p.m.