Joe Scheumann laments fire departments', officers' and firefighters' disregard—conscious or not—of safety standards that are ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, has come under criticism for using the word “normalization” during a Christmas celebration in ...

Ben Bibik lives in Tully. I write as a longtime volunteer firefighter. I am one of the few who has the luxury of working in district that can respond to most of the calls during the daytime hours, ...

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Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) Chief Brian Fennessy will retire on January 2, 2026, to become the inaugural Director of the newly established United States Wildland Fire Service (USWFS). The new ...

HONG KONG — A major fire tore through multiple high-rise towers at a housing complex in Hong Kong on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, the city's chief executive, John Lee, said, with 279 people ...

The fire and salvage operation could take days. Drones were used to monitor air quality, one local official said. By Shawn Hubler Francesca Regalado and Chris Hippensteel Shawn Hubler reported from ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

A Beaver County fire department said it will stop servicing its community in 2026 if the borough doesn't take action to pay its staff. Big Beaver Borough Volunteer Fire Chief Matt Straub said these ...

From listeria outbreaks to aviation incidents and accidents, safety failures are unfortunately prevalent in our world. The paradox of safety failures is that, when you compare them to each other, they ...