The availability of on-call firefighters has dropped by 26% nationally over the last decade. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue service is calling for more people to sign-up. "I was bathing my two-year-old.

CLEVELAND (WJW) — The FOX 8 I-Team has uncovered more of what was happening at the moment gunfire erupted leaving six people hurt in the Flats. We have recordings of the first calls for help, and new ...

BATAVIA — The City Fire Department took nearly 3,000 calls for service in 2025, in what was a record-breaking year. The 2,997 calls were an increase of 182 from the year before. Calls per day were 8.2 ...

As emergency calls rise and the U.S. population continues to grow, a quiet crisis is unfolding: the country’s volunteer firefighter ranks — the backbone of fire protection in most communities — are ...

Being a volunteer firefighter means missing dinners, sleep, and birthdays, but for St. Paul’s Cody Bodnar, the fulfillment of ...

Jackson County fire departments start new recruiting program as volunteer and paid on-call firefighter numbers drop from 30-40 to just 5-10 responders per call over past twenty years.