The Ames City Council kicked off the budgeting process for Ames after the informal presentation of the five-year capital ...

Heartbroken families, burned-out business owners and beleaguered Los Angeles leaders are beginning to ponder a monumental ...

Fire officials made the critical decision to forgo calling in scores of extra firefighters and equipment in the hours before ...

The Lincolnwood Fire Department has a shiny new fire engine, adding to the current fleet and coming at a price tag of nearly ...

On Saturday morning, a “push-in” ceremony was held, where a team of firefighters pushed the new truck into Station 1. This tradition dates back to the era of horse-drawn carriages when firefighters ...

With the tempest expected to hit on Dec. 1 that year, LAFD commanders ordered up at least 40 extra fire engines for stations ... defended his plan for deployment as “appropriate for immediate ...

“You would have had a better chance to get a better result if you deployed those engines,” former ... the logs show. “The plan you’re using now for the fire you should have used before ...

As fires continue to burn in southern California, a factory metro Grand Rapids is manufacturing equipment specially designed ...

LOS ANGELES — As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available ...

Officials at the fire ... The plan that they put together, I stand behind, because we have to manage everybody in the city,' Crowley argued. She initially said most of the ready reserve engines ...

A RELENTLESS six-day fire at Fairfield Farm in Grand Bahama forced its owners to battle the flames themselves due to the island’s reported lack of operational fire engines. Tiffany Dennison, who ...