Ohio volunteer fire departments are funded through local levies. That forces small rural communities to rely on shoestring ...

With increased service calls, decreased recruitment and higher fatalities than the rest of the country, Ohio officials are ...

The Annaville Fire Department hosted several sessions of fire training for over 100 United States Navy Sea Cadets. The United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps is a youth development program that provides ...

It’s often taken for granted, Cape Girardeau firefighter Chris Miller said, that people can call emergency services for a structure fire and know that a fire engine will soon arrive to extinguish it.

Concord Green Fire Chief Ralph Stegbauer and Captain Jeffrey Skaggs were doing their best to save money at their volunteer fire department in Fayette County. So they borrowed an extended lift from a ...

Firefighter, family man and well-known member of the McCandless community Daniel Stack passed away unexpectedly on May 10 at age 51. Many knew Stack from his 35 years of service fighting blazes in the ...

An ongoing shortage of volunteer firefighters has reached a critical level that could lead to delayed response times to emergencies, and, potentially, departments being unable to respond to any urgent ...

Volunteer firefighting in New York State developed out of community necessity and neighborly cooperation. In the colonial and early national periods, towns and villages had no organized public safety ...

New Jersey has thousands of volunteer firefighters. Without them, emergency response as we know it doesn’t function. Their service is the backbone of public safety in many communities, from suburban ...

Pennsylvania has the most volunteer fire departments in the nation, according to the state fire commissioner. But many of those fire companies are grappling with the cost of expensive equipment and ...