The chief of the Franklin Township (PA) Volunteer Fire Department was killed Thursday night in a two-vehicle crash.

Ralston (NE) Fire Chief Kyle Ienn was found dead in an apparent suicide this week.

Heart attacks and strokes were responsible for the deaths of 48 firefighters in 2011, nearly the same proportion of firefighter deaths from heart attack or stroke as the year before.

Dozens of people on Monday evening came to pay their respects to a fallen Woodbridge (NJ) firefighter.

The landlord who owns the triple-decker where a Worcester (MA) firefighter was killed on duty has been cited for more than 60 code violations at two other properties.

A firefighter suffered a fatal heart attack while fighting a fire in Woodbridge, New Jersey, that killed one other person, officials said.

A 19-year-old Adams County (PA) firefighter is dead after crashing his Jeep on the way to a fire call.

Southern Comfort has made a donation of $25,000 to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

Veteran staffers on the House and Senate energy and appropriations committees reportedly ran an office pool in which employees tried to guess how many acres were burned by wildland fires each year.

Scald burns are the second leading cause of all burn injuries and children, older adults and people with disabilities, according to a release from the National Fire Protection Association and the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors.

Veteran Pompano Beach firefighter William “Bill” Elliott, 50, died Friday after falling approximately 100 feet from the top of a ladder truck during a training exercise.

Although the fire service has changed much over the years, there's still a lot to do to increase firefighter safety even more, Todd Shoebridge writes.

The United States Fire Administration (USFA) announced today there were 81 on-duty firefighter fatalities in the United States as a result of incidents that occurred in 2011.

A video has been produced with the help of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation which examines the experiences and life stories of members of the Chicago Fire Department who have been involved with serious injury or death on the job.

Criminal contempt charges will be filed against the owner of the vacant commercial building that collapsed and killed two Chicago (IL) firefighters in December 2010.

A draft report cites conflicting accounts of why an air tanker was not summoned in the early hours of the devastating Station Fire, a massive 2009 wildfire that killed two firefighters.

Worcester (MA) firefighter Jon Davies, who was killed while conducting a search in a burning triple-decker last week, was laid to rest yesterday.

A resident of the Worcester (MA) triple-decker where a city firefighter died battling a fire last week has been found and was arrested on charges stemming from a parole violation.

An internal report on the Charleston (SC) Fire Department's response to a March 1 fire chronicles mistakes that parallel those made during the June 2007 Sofa Super Store fire that killed nine firefighters.

As the family of a Worcester firefighter prepares for his funeral, a $5,000 reward is being offered for clues in what investigators may now believe is an arson case.