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At wildfire base camps in California and beyond, therapy dogs and their handlers are providing firefighters with a much-needed distraction from the taxing work they face on the front lines.

The labor movement is torn over vaccine requirements — much like the country as a whole — wanting to both support its political ally in Biden and protect its members against infection but also not wanting to trample their workers’ rights.

Several Massachusetts firefighters who battled wildfires in Idaho and Montana over the last few weeks have returned home.

Twenty Massachusetts firefighters on Saturday received a welcome on their return to Hopkinton from battling three large wildfires in Montana and Idaho. Department of Conservation and Recreation Commissioner Jim Montomery thanked the group of DCR firefighters for their “true commitment.” Daniel Bove was on his first trip out west to battle the blazes, but he said the crew was “always…

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Firefighters in Greece battled a large blaze in the Vilia area northwest of Athens as wildfires erupted across the country during its most severe heat wave in decades.

Cellphone footage captured the moment an Alabama man jumped from a burning 25-foot lift into a safety net below.

Firefighters in Massachusetts are answering the calls for help with more than 100 large wildfires raging in a dozen western states.

Firefighters from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation are heading to Montana to help firefighters who are battling wildfires there. While Massachusetts has sent wildland fire crews to help with wildfires in other regions of the country in the past, this mission is no less challenging. Wildfires across the West have strained resources and threatened thousands of homes with…

Local Crews Will Help Fight Wildfires

The Dixie Fire that sparked July 13th has become the 2nd largest wildfire in California’s history.

A hazardous material response team with the Boston Fire Department was deployed in Cambridge Wednesday morning, where 12 firefighters were taken to the hospital with chemical burns.

Three adults and one cat escaped a house fire in Wareham, Massachusetts, Monday morning, but another cat died. The Wareham Fire Department received multiple calls about a fire at 33 Long Boat Road in West Wareham around 2:17 a.m. Monday. Wareham Police officers arrived on scene first and told firefighters that there home was heavily involved in fire. Firefighters made an…

Out-of-state crews are heading to Montana to battle a blaze that injured five firefighters as the West struggles with a series of wildfires that have ravaged rural lands and destroyed homes

A multi-family home caught fire on Autumn Street in Somerville around midnight. An unknown number of adults and children are reportedly displaced Thursday, the Red Cross of Massachusetts wrote on Twitter, and offered services. The Somerville and Cambridge Fire Departments responded to the scene. No further information was immediately available.

The Biden administration says it is hiring more federal firefighters — and immediately raising their pay — as officials ramp up response efforts in the face of a severe drought that’s setting the stage for another destructive summer of intense wildfires across the West

Firefighters battle a huge fire on the roof of three homes in Dorchester.

A discarded cigarette caused the massive fire that raged through two houses and damaged four more in Revere, Massachusetts, Thursday, sending smoke into the air that could be seen for miles.

A blaze sent huge plumes of smoke into the air over Revere, Massachusetts. It could have been worse, if not for the heroism of a quick-thinking neighbor.