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 programs come as the state continues to experience a firefighter shortage, ...

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 ...

A group of 14 women, some of whom were inmates or former foster kids, became the first all-female class to graduate from an LA County firefighter training program.