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The Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union (MPFFU) declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election.

The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) has snubbed the Harris-Walz ticket with a non-endorsement.

The Philadelphia Firefighters’ & Paramedics’ Union Local 22 endorsed Pennsylvania Senate Republican candidate Dave McCormick on Thursday.

Police are investigating after a Jaws of Life tool was stolen from firefighters in Democrat-run Oakland, California, on Friday.

The first female fire commissioner of New York City is being replaced by the CEO of a local security firm after facing backlash from her own firefighters after she investigated them for heckling the state’s attorney general, Letitia James.

An Oklahoma family’s dog nearly jumped out of its skin while chewing on a lithium-ion battery that caught fire in May.

A Saturday New York City fire injured 11 firefighters and three other locals after it ripped through multiple homes and cars, officials said.

The wildfire threatening Canada’s historic town of Jasper has quadrupled in size to more than 36,000 hectares and damaged up to half of the structures in town as of Friday.

A pair of off-duty firefighters died on Thursday at a farm near Syracuse, New York, when they fell into a manure tanker.

Chilean authorities arrested 22-year-old volunteer firefighter Francisco Mondaca and former forestry official Franco Pinto over the weekend after prosecutors charged the men with causing massive fires in February that left 137 dead and over 16,000 homeless in central Chile.

A Cleveland, Ohio, family’s baby girl was rescued from a house fire by a good Samaritan who just happened to be driving by. 

A huge fire erupted overnight at an RV dealership in Santa Fe Springs, California, after a suspicious person was seen at the lot around 12:30 a.m.

Baby boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in the woods or trash bins, potentially leaving them to die.

Drug addicts near a firehouse in East Harlem have been seeing people pooping and shooting up outside the facility.

FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh has been given a not-so-nice name after she said officials would try to identify firefighters that erupted in jeers recently at New York Attorney General Letitia James, who previously vowed to take down former President Donald Trump.

A firefighter recently showed that every life is valuable and worthy of saving after he brought a small creature back from the brink of death.

A 19-year-old was fatally struck in the head late Monday in Michigan by a canister projected into the air by a blast that occurred a quarter of a mile away.

A diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program for Washington emergency responders has been suspended following backlash from employees, at the risk of endangering their professional certifications.

A firefighter in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been busy helping drivers across the area stuck in the winter weather.

Firefighters made quite the save on Monday when their truck spun out of control in an Imperial, Missouri, neighborhood.

The first Safe Haven Baby Box infant surrender of 2024 happened at an Indiana fire station last week, according to officials.

A California man’s life was saved Friday after he became trapped in a hole on Sunset Cliffs in San Diego County.

An Indiana boy with autism has become the youngest American to get CPR certified, just two days before his ninth birthday.

CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed, again, that he almost lost his Delaware home in a fire, during a speech to firefighters at Philadelphia’s Engine 13 Firehouse on Monday.

A fire station in Alabama is working to open the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box in the coming weeks.

A “major” fire broke out in a California neighborhood, prompting officials to tell locals to evacuate the area.

Smoke from Canada’s still-burning wildfires once again drifted across the border into the northern United States this week, prompting smoke and haze advisories until Wednesday, although the air quality remained much higher than it was during Canadian wildfire smoke plumes this summer.

A woman who thought she was more capable than a man recently found herself in a predicament in which she needed help from the opposite sex.

A man who stopped to help car accident victims late Sunday in Baltimore City, Maryland, died when he fell from a bridge at the scene.

Missouri has joined the growing list of states installing Safe Haven Baby Boxes, which are secured incubators where mothers in crisis can surrender their newborns.

The baby girl, who is the fourth baby surrendered at the fire station in the past 16 months, already has a new home.

Two firefighters and a pilot who were killed Sunday after a midair collision between two helicopters fighting a brush fire in Riverside County were mourned on Monday.

A newborn was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box at the 2nd Platoon of Kokomo Fire Department in Indiana, Fox News Digital reported Friday. 

A brush fire on Interstate 5 in Seattle, Washington, ignited early Friday reportedly at an encampment before burning up trees in its wake.

Smoke from the massive wildfires in Canada is drifting across the border into the United States, setting off air quality alerts for about 70 million people in a dozen states, including cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York.

Officials are mourning the loss of two firefighters who died while battling a blaze on a cargo ship containing thousands of vehicles at a New Jersey port on Wednesday night.