NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – At the Springer Correctional Center in northern New Mexico, women inmates are getting hands-on training in wildland firefighting. The New Mexico Corrections Department’s recently ...

When Linda Wadleigh was a forestry major at Utah State University she came upon her first summer job as a firefighter, a role that led to a 30-year career in wildland fire management with the U.S.

A new funding effort is underway to train hundreds of formerly incarcerated men and women to become firefighters. The ...

Inspired by her own experience, Mikaela Balkind created the training to empower young women to join the wildfire profession, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill — Two women firefighters from the Galena Fire Department recently attended the yearly training event hosted by the Fire Service Women of Illinois at the Illinois Fire Service Institute ...