Fire officials working the Green Fire burning in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest northeast of Redding announced they are using two "Super Scooper" planes to drop water and help extinguish flames.

The Green Fire spread Tuesday morning in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest wilderness in an area northeast of Redding and Shasta Lake, about 8 miles west of Montgomery Creek. Fueled by dry conditions ...

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U.S. Forest Service firefighters work on containing the Eaton fire, a wildfire that burned 14,000 acres in Los Angeles County in January. (Photo by Jeremy Lindenfeld/Capital & Main) This article was ...

OREGON (KTVZ) -- The USDA Forest Service has announced it will be hiring nearly 600 fire support positions in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. It says these positions are vital to wildfire preparedness ...

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Despite the Trump administration’s public pronouncements that it has hired enough wildland firefighters, documents obtained by ProPublica show a high vacancy rate, as well as internal concern among ...

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