After almost 20 years as a firefighter, Kale Brucks founded Engine Company Leather to design leather goods for firefighters.

The Volunteer Firefighter Equipment and Training program is helping more than 200 departments pay for equipment and training to use it.

which helps to pay for the purchase of over 100 types of safety equipment, including essential firefighter turnout gear, ...

Lawmakers will convene for a work session Tuesday afternoon to discuss a resolution addressing the presence of cancer-causing chemicals in firefighting gear.

When Kale Brucks was an active firefighter, he wondered what could be done to improve his work gear. He thought it ... “I took a look at some of my equipment, and I thought to myself, ‘I ...