Founding father Ben Franklin also founded America’s first volunteer fire department

Colonial Philadelphia — a community of wooden dwellings and businesses along the Delaware River back in the 1700s — was under ...
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On This Date: America's Deadliest Wildfire Event, The Great Chicago And Peshtigo Fires

In recent years, we've seen large wildfires burn towns such as Lahaina, Hawaii, and Paradise, California, to the ground. On Oct. 8, 1871, 154 years ago today, the deadliest wildfire outbreak in U.S.
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Rosenbauer America to Showcase Wildland Technology at 2025 Canadian Wildfire Conference

Wyoming, MN – Rosenbauer America, a leading manufacturer of fire apparatus, announced its participation at the 2025 Canadian Wildfire Conference in Kelowna, British Columbia, from Oct. 1-2. Rosenbauer ...
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The first book about the L.A. fires is really about 'America's new age of disaster'

If journalism is the first draft of history, TV news is a rough, improbable sketch. As last year’s wildfires multiplied, still 0% contained, field reporters — tasked with articulating the ...
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The first book about the L.A. fires is really about ‘America’s new age of disaster’

If journalism is the first draft of history, TV news is a rough, improbable sketch. As last year’s wildfires multiplied, still 0% contained, field reporters — tasked with articulating the ...