The Panama City Fire Department helped celebrate a local rock star Friday as Lids4Kids presented its 83rd custom firefighter helmet.

Firefighter helmets have a unique shape for a very specific reason, men and women wearing those helmets are thankful for the bizarre design.

Firefighter Naser Brjas and White Helmet member Kinan Ali respond to an emergency call in Damascus on March 31, 2025. (Hasan Belal for NPR) DAMASCUS, Syria — Every morning for 28 years, Haitham ...

They were on opposite sides during Syria's civil war and now must do lifesaving work together. A makeshift brick wall divides them in their Damascus fire station. The psychological wall is higher.

The traditional American leather firefighter’s helmet with its distinctive long rear brim, frontpiece, and crest adornment was first developed around 1821-1836 in New York City. Henry T. Gratacap, a ...

Prince George’s County Executive Aisha Braveboy announced Thelmetria “MeMe” Michaelides, who started with the department in 1987 as a dispatcher, is now chief of the Prince George’s County ...

Federal agents were conducting an immigration enforcement operation at Glass House Farms near Camarillo on Thursday.