More than $593,000 in state and federal grant funding is headed to rural fire departments across Ohio, including several in Ross and Hocking counties, through the Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) grant ...

Town and Country Fire Department has announced its receipt of a Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) grant, which will be used to support its wildland firefighting ...

Wildfires, industrial conflagrations, and large-scale hazardous incidents are pushing firefighting equipment to its operational limits. Fire hoses, traditionally considered rugged and dependable, now ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...