The National Firefighter Registry (NFR) is the largest effort ever undertaken to understand and reduce risk of cancer among U.S. firefighters. NIOSH is recruiting firefighters to join the NFR in order to better understand the link between firefighting and cancer. Firefighters are exposed to chemicals on the fireground that could increase their risk of developing cancer. There are many unanswered...

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Wildland firefighters are taught to always consider safety first when combating a wildfire. Loss of life while fighting a wildfire is simply unacceptable, no matter how valuable the resources under protection or at risk. Even seasoned veterans can benefit from review and reinforcement of the principles underlying safety standards, especially when confronted with fires of increasing complexity and risk.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fire Jobs Portal provides information about the types of positions BLM Fire has to offer, helpful hints for applying, contact information for local BLM fire managers and links to USAJOBS for current vacancies.
Check out current and upcoming job opportunities with the USDA Forest Service.
The Prescribed Fire Specialist (PFS) will play a pivotal role in a new programmatic effort to scale up the prescribed fire workforce across California. Most of the prescribed fire projects the PFS will support will function as cooperative burns or Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX), which provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for fire management and offers...
The Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences Department (NRES) in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is seeking a full-time academic year, tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Wildland Fire Management starting September 14, 2023. Candidates with industry or other professional experience...
With this Dear Colleague Letter, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is calling for planning proposals focused on catalyzing innovative and inclusive wildland fire science through collaboration among diverse stakeholders and rights holders. A planning proposal is a type of proposal used to support initial conceptualization, planning and collaboration activities that aim to formulate new and...
The U.S. Fire Administration, in partnership with Women in Fire, is pleased to host its first-ever Women's Weekend at the National Fire Academy (NFA) in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Fire and...
Trainings have been offered with the intent of furthering wildland fire suppression and prescribed fire capacity at Camp Edwards and among its wildland fire partner organizations.
Nominations are due May 21, 2023
This year’s meeting will run concurrently between the Mountain West Society of Toxicology and the Rocky Mountain Wildfire Smoke Symposium. Participants will
have opportunities to attend career workshops, policy-based seminars, a poster session,...
This year’s meeting will run concurrently between the Mountain West Society of Toxicology and the Rocky Mountain Wildfire Smoke Symposium. Participants will have opportunities to attend career workshops, policy-based seminars, a poster session, and...
The 6th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, hosted by the International Association of Wildland Fire and the Wildland Fire Leadership Council, along with three regional strategy committees...
Join USDA Forest Service Innovation and Organizational Learning for its monthly webinar series, which focuses on the Wildland Fire Metareview, a publication that looks across 10 years of USDA Forest Service wildland fire accidents and incidents. The...
Join the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO) for an educational and action-oriented workshop centered around things you can do to prepare your home and family for wildfire season....
The goal of this regular Association for Fire Ecology zoom meeting is to provide a platform for student and early career professionals to meet, to get better connected as a community, and to be...
The 8th International Wildland Fire Conference is being held in Porto, Portugal.
The main objective of the 8th IWFC is to create space for presentation of current results of work in the field of wildland fire. The conference is also a space for...
This course leads students through the ecological and historical role of fire, characteristics of smoke and the health, safety and visibility impacts of smoke. Other topics include public relations, legal requirements, meteorology, fuel consumption,...
Wildfire Community Preparedness Day is a national campaign that encourages people and organizations everywhere to come together on a single day to take action to raise awareness and reduce wildfire risks. It is held in the United States and Canada on...
The Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI) is hosting a workshop focused on all-lands forest and fire management in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and surrounding states.
- Share successes and lessons learned on cross-boundary,...
May 1–12, 2023
Banff National Park
In May 2023, Banff National Park will be hosting the first WTREX Canada!
WTREX (Women-in-Fire Training Exchange) is an intensive 12-day training exchange that combines practical live-fire training...
Brent Ruby received his Ph.D. in exercise science from the University of New Mexico in 1994. Dr. Ruby served as the Director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Montana from 1994-2007. He is now the Director of the Montana Center...
Please join us in person in Seattle, Washington or via Microsoft Teams.
This annual meeting, hosted by EPA Region 10 and a team of partners, provides an opportunity for air quality, land management, public health, academia, community, and other...