The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Incarcerated firefighters play a crucial role in a state where wildfires seemingly get worse every year. But the state’s shifting politics may stymie efforts at reform.

A road in Chambersburg is closed, following a multi-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon. According to Franklin County dispatchers, the first calls came in around 3 p.m. for reports of a multi-vehicle ...

Deputies in the Danville City Jail were serving breakfast to inmates. One inmate did not come out of his cell for breakfast. Deputies ...

A 48-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly starting separate fires that proved deadly in a travel trailer and storage yard at a mobile home resort and campground in Aguanga, authorities said.

More than a thousand incarcerated firefighters helped beat back the LA blazes. This is what you should know about their work.

Fire engulfed a prison in the Chilean capital Santiago Wednesday early in the morning, killing 83 inmates and critically injuring 14 others, the government said, in the worst-ever accident in the ...

Brian Conroy, a captain at the state firefighting agency Cal Fire, recently led a crew of formerly incarcerated firefighters ...

Emergency crews responded to a crash outside a Pennsylvania state senator's office in Springfield Township on Thursday afternoon. According to York County dispatchers, the first calls came in at 4:18 ...

Arrests have been made in two fires that broke out two weeks ago in San Diego, San Diego Police chief Scott Wahl told NBC 7.

Two firefighters are on the mend after a smoky fire broke out in Berks County ... their family members," Schartel said. Shartel said crews also experienced some ice problems.

Incarcerated firefighters can have years of experience by the time they're released. But getting a job in the field is still difficult.