The Hotchkiss Fire District announced that Chief Doug Fritz was the recipient of the 2025 George Mazzotti Fire Chief of the ...

To stay relevant, firefighters must see themselves as career-long students. Learning should not stop at graduation from the recruit academy; instead, graduation marks the beginning of a firefighter’s ...

In 2015, I transitioned to fire chief of the McKeesport, PA, Fire Department. I had ideas to move the department forward but quickly realized that I lacked the tools to implement them effectively. Yes ...

In the fire service, imagine a captain who subtly undermines a subordinate’s efforts to gain favor with the chief, or a ...

Although James Johnston suggests to fire department leaders that they smile the next time that prideful firefighters roll ...

Governor Gavin Newsom announced today the first graduating class of Company Officers at CalFire’s new Atwater Training Center ...

Game changer, disrupter, hard-charger. Those are terms usually reserved to describe the captains of industry. But when you are Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell and head up a large federal agency like the U.S.

Hotchkiss Fire Chief Doug Fritz has been named the 2025 George Mazzotti Fire Chief of the Year, an honor presented Oct. 23 at ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will welcome 40 students Monday to its brand new firefighter training facility in Merced County as part of a multiyear push to bolster its ...