It’s often taken for granted, Cape Girardeau firefighter Chris Miller said, that people can call emergency services for a structure fire and know that a fire engine will soon arrive to extinguish it.

Since the early 2000s, there has been a significant decline in the number of volunteer firefighters and EMS personnel in New ...

Fire Services divided last year’s 28 proceeding recruits into two training cohorts “to accommodate the strong pool of ...