Southern California's Station Fire in Los Angeles County
Station Fire Causes Forest Devastation
With the Station Fire being big news in L.A. County the Los Angeles Times has had very good coverage in their daily newspaper. The whole width of the mountain range from Pasadena to Acton in the high desert has been consumed by fire. That is a swatch of Angeles National Forest more than 18 miles wide, by the crow, south to north. East and west it is still growing. All of Los Angeles City noticed of the Station Fire. The smoke towered over the basin in massive pyrocumulus clouds. The county...

Firefighting Volunteer Firefighter
Fire Rescue
What does it take to be a firefighter? What is in the firefighter job description? Are job requirements different between volunteer firefighters and paid firefighters? This page will cover everything one would want, or need, to know about becoming a firefighter.

Cool Stuff About Firefighters and Firefighting
May Be The Coolest Job In The World
OK. Maybe not as cool as being a rock star or a professional athlete. But as far as jobs for regular people go, it's pretty darn cool. And it involves so many cool things. Like cool tools, cool clothes, a cool ride, cool schedule, cool t-shirts, cool fire stations, cool people. Actually there are some uncool people, but they're mostly chiefs. Anyway, I'd like to share some of the cool stuff that I like about being a fireman with others who either are firefighters, like firefighter...