The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity, despite a lack of funding and some ...

Interior says it is only restructuring internally, though it is still working toward Trump's goal of an interagency merger.

Congress has balked at the Trump administration's push to move firefighting responsibilities from the Forest Service to ...

Trump Plans to Merge Wildland Firefighting Efforts Into One Agency, but Ex-Officials Warn of Chaos BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s ...

While Orangeburg County fire officials say well-trained firefighters are important, new state standards set for interior firefighting could have a chilling impact on attracting new volunteers to an ...