While fellow firefighters were battling voracious blazes throughout Northern California, Cal Fire engineer Robert Hernandez is accused of igniting his own fires, according to authorities. Hernandez, ...

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

A Cal Fire firefighting engineer accused of sparking at least five fires in Northern California forest lands was arrested Friday by investigators. Stunned Cal Fire officials announced the arrest ...

As wildfires threaten densely populated areas worldwide with increasing frequency and intensity, Thomas Gernay, an associate professor in civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, is ...

Tim Hall, 59, collapsed around noon and he was later declared dead at an area hospital, the West Sacramento Fire Department (WSFD) said. The cause of death remains under investigation. Hall had been ...

A familiar face at fire service conferences across the country, Bobby Halton, has passed away. He began his fire service career with the Albuquerque, NM, Fire Department and held many ranks before he ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — The West Sacramento Fire ...

The Fairfield Fire Department announced that retired Fairfield Fire Engineer Chris Bell died at the age of 41 on Tuesday morning from job-related occupational cancer. Bell, who grew up in Vallejo, is ...

Thomas Gase – Times-Herald, Vallejo, Calif. Nov. 5—The Fairfield Fire Department announced that retired Fairfield Fire Engineer Chris Bell died at the age of 41 on Tuesday morning from job-related ...

A Cal Fire engineer killed in the Thomas Fire was trapped by flames while he and his team tried to douse flare-ups last month above Fillmore. That's according to a preliminary report recently released ...