The federal government will combine its wildland firefighting operations within the Interior Department into a single new agency, dubbed the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, according to memos released ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity. This week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the initial steps were complete ...

An executive order signed earlier this month by President Donald Trump would look to “consolidate” five federal wildland fire agencies into one. The U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a unification of programs previously part of six DOI agencies and offices.

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - Firefighters from East Texas and other states gathered in Kilgore today to complete a course teaching them the basics of wildland firefighting. Participants learned about the ...