For some rural fire and emergency response districts, rising costs for emergency vehicles and repairs are noticeable — and increased diesel costs are only adding to the burden.

Rural Illinois fire department launches a fire cadet program that is helping the community. Here’s how your town can start a ...

When thinking of rural America, what likely comes to mind are farms, open land and dirt roads. In fact, this openness is represented in the NFPA’s definition of a “rural area.” The definition is used ...

Village officials and firefighters gathered Wednesday at Mount Prospect Fire Station 11 to mark the delivery of an $850,000 ...

Responding to a structure fire can be the easiest or the most challenging assignment a rural fire department deals with. Location, weather conditions, size of building and volume of fire are just a ...

Fuel prices are climbing across the U.S., and area fire departments are making adjustments to combat fuel budgets at risk of ...

As I look out the window of my Montana house, I can see for literally hundreds of miles. This is rural America at its best. It is a truly amazing place to live—a place where it is far more common to ...

The Rural Metro Corporation is celebrating 70 years of fire service. Originally conceived by a 22-year-old journalist working for the Arizona Times, the seed was planted when he watched his neighbors’ ...

East of Denver, across Colorado's Great Plains into Kansas, Interstate 70 unspools across miles of flat, open prairie like a numbing ribbon of asphalt. Here the horizon rests on a promise — that ...

The town of Rural Hall announced that Fire Chief Mike Simone resigned on Aug. 19, 2025, after serving as the town's fire chief since 2021.Town officials say Simone will remain a member of the Rural ...