Mikal Elamin was sworn in as police chief and Derek Bryant as fire chief in Matteson, the first African Americans in those ...

History is being made at the Bakersfield Fire Department with its very first African American deputy fire chief. “I went to ...

Miford Jordan was the city's first Black fire chief and led the department to the best possible rating, meaning lower home ...

A Long Island fire chief has been suspended after disturbing cellphone footage surfaced showing him cursing at a 10-year-old ...

A fire chief in Long Island, New York, was suspended from his job after disturbing cellphone footage captured him shouting ...

Photo: Stockbyte A New York fire chief has been removed from duty after he was caught on video berating a 10-year-old girl as ...

The number of structures threatened has risen to more than 2,900 in both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

Shelly Carter was sworn in as Hamden's new fire chief, replacing Jeffrey Naples who retired earlier this year.

Can we really fortify our homes and our city against a fire storm? These experts offer some tips and some hope for the future ...

This fire burned everything in its path. It was a ghost fire,” said Savvas Iezekiel, head of the forestry department, speaking a day after the flames were finally contained. “It left behind black ...

ATLANTA — Friends, family, and first responders gathered to honor the life and legacy of retired Fire Chief William Hamer, Atlanta’s first Black fire chief, who passed away earlier this month ...

Community Winston-Salem celebrates trailblazer: North Carolina's first Black fire chief Lester Ervin became the first African-American fire chief in the state in 1980.