Female firefighters are facing a major issue with ill-fitting gear. Steps must be taken to ensure they receive the same level of protection as their male counterparts. In 1818, Molly Williams of ...

Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm, which began Jan. 7 near Los Angeles, here. It took nearly three years to win presumptive workers’ compensation coverage for breast ...

Female firefighters have always played an integral role in Colorado’s fire service, responding to structure fires, chemical spills, and medical emergencies with the same dedication and risk as their ...

NEW YORK (AP) – As a New York City firefighter, Sarinya Srisakul didn’t work with another woman for five years, and when she did, she took pictures because it was so rare. “We were so excited to see ...

The Federal Employees’ Compensation Act recently expanded presumptive coverage for firefighters to include female-specific cancers, yet these laws only apply to federal employees. From the total ...

It took nearly three years to win presumptive workers’ compensation coverage for breast, cervical, and other cancers that firefighters who work for federal agencies may develop because of hazardous ...

Kelly Ramsey spent two years as a hotshot firefighter in California beginning in 2020. As a woman, she was an outlier on the crew. She said women make up only about 5% of specialized wildfire crews.