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Active-duty sailors will have to complete two physical fitness assessments per year starting in 2026, the Navy announced this week in a return to its pre-coronavirus pandemic fitness testing schedule.

The flames die down. The sirens fade. Firefighters peel off their gear, thinking the danger has passed. But in the quiet aftermath, another enemy lingers, an invisible film of "forever chemicals" ...

A new “wipe test” on firefighter gear has been likened to “turning on a blacklight in a dark room,” and may lead to important safety protocols to help firefighters reduce their risk of cancer. In the ...

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An Arizona firefighter’s battle with thyroid cancer turned into a more than year-long fight for workers’ compensation coverage due to a dispute over a comma in a state law, ABC15 reports. Matt ...

At age 6, Terry McCarty's older brothers accidentally kicked a lit bowl of kerosene toward him, wrapping McCarty in fire and burning 73 percent of his skin He spent the following year in the hospital, ...

President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...

While many Upstate New Yorkers enjoy spending the last weekends of summer watching Syracuse University football, soaking up the sun at Green Lakes State Park, or doing anything to take their mind off ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US policy at a time of growing ...

Brand new Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks as a police hiring bonus, tearing out the Albuquerque Rapid Transit system and imposing a nightly curfew for youths — those are some of former firefighter ...

For over two decades, Fayetteville knew Mark Olson as their mayor and firehouse volunteer. Now, they know him as their county legislator. It’s a title he aims to keep this November. Olson is running ...