Reading Fire initially started 6:53 p.m. June 8 in Trinity County. It has burned 47.4 acres after being active for six days.

Reading Fire initially started 6:53 p.m. June 8 in Trinity County. It has burned 47.4 acres after being active for five days.

The Reading Fire, sparked by lightning from recent thunderstorms, has reached 55% containment and remains at 39 acres as of 7 ...

Evacuation warnings have been issued for zones DUG-258 and DUG-260 in Douglas City. An evacuation warning means people in ...

Being able to “read a fire” is the mark of a firefighter who is able to make decisions based on knowledge and skill–not guess work or luck. In the late 1990s, European firefighters were ...

Ed and I had worked closely together as co-authors of a book called 3D Firefighting and we had numerous discussions on the finer points of reading fire. He convinced me that it was critical to ...

The Reading Fire Department has been chronically understaffed for almost a decade now. Fire Chief William Stoudt Jr. hopes a new grant from the federal government will help correct that problem.

A four-alarm fire in a Reading apartment building sent two people to the hospital with what were believed to be serious injuries and displaced about 15 residents, authorities said.Firefighters ...

William I. Stoudt Jr. never envisioned holding the highest rank with the Reading Fire Department, but circumstances eight years ago obliged him to throw his hat in the ring. “I never looked or ...