While fellow firefighters were battling voracious blazes throughout Northern California, Cal Fire engineer Robert Hernandez is accused of igniting his own fires, according to authorities. Hernandez, 38, was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of ...

Captain Stephen Orsini's article in Fire Engineering Magazine discusses modern firefighting and the need for continuous training.

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers leading the way toward more common use of structural ...

A Cal Fire firefighting engineer accused of sparking at least five fires in Northern California forest lands was arrested Friday by investigators. Stunned Cal Fire officials announced the arrest Friday of the suspect, 38-year-old Robert Hernandez of ...

The Hobart Fire Department conducted a formal promotion ceremony Monday, recognizing the advancement of six firefighters.

As wildfires threaten densely populated areas worldwide with increasing frequency and intensity, Thomas Gernay, an associate professor in civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, is relying on funding from the National Science Foundation ...

Tim Hall, 59, collapsed around noon and he was later declared dead at an area hospital, the West Sacramento Fire Department (WSFD) said. The cause of death remains under investigation. Hall had been an 18-year veteran with the fire department after ...

A claim filed by a San Diego-area firefighter handcuffed at the scene of a crash demands that the California Highway Patrol fix a “longstanding problem” of CHP officers getting in the way of emergency crews on the state’s highways. "It was a very odd ...

Thomas Gase – Times-Herald, Vallejo, Calif. Nov. 5—The Fairfield Fire Department announced that retired Fairfield Fire Engineer Chris Bell died at the age of 41 on Tuesday morning from job-related occupational cancer. Bell, who grew up in Vallejo, is ...