U.S. wildland firefighter efforts may soon be consolidated under a new bill introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Tim ...

SCOTTS VALLEY — This week, firefighter Brian Green trekked the more than six-mile round trip from his Erba Lane fire station to DeLaveaga Park in Santa Cruz, combing backroad ditches and bushes ...

“It’s going to be really bad, really quick,” said Ben McLane, a federal hand crew captain and board member with Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. “We’re going to have a lack of personnel ...

Frampton said the DNRC was successful in finding enough local and non local wildland firefighters for the season.