Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 8—WATERTOWN — Watertown Fire Commissioner Warren Day is convinced that the future of small, rural volunteer fire departments ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Volunteer fire officials across New York state are concerned about the cost of meeting what would be the largest overhaul in decades of federal safety regulations for firefighters.

The Wethersfield Volunteer Fire Department has been cited for serious safety violations following the death of one of its firefighters who was battling the Hawthorne fire on Lamentation Mountain in ...

Like most rural volunteer fire departments, the Natoma, Kansas, department uses old fire protection gear. Proposed OSHA rules could require Fire Chief Keith Koelling to replace it all with new gear ...