Firefighters have finally extinguished the fire at the New England Road landfill site in Pietermaritzburg, which had engulfed the KwaZulu-Natal capital in thick clouds of toxic…

The years-long battle against the EnviroServ waste site at Shongweni has taken a new turn

Bulawayo’s fire brigade should have 320 employees but is 70 people short because of budget cuts

Political parties and trade unions pointed the finger at who they say is responsible for the deaths of the three firefighters

As the city remembered the lives of three firefighters, the government has been blamed for their deaths

It is the likes of emergency services —the firemen and the paramedics —who bear the brunt for shortfalls in the public purse

Fire season is upon Mpumalanga and its forestry industry, but several key firefighting aircraft remain grounded.

The firestorms that flare up in Mpumalanga during the dry season can turn forestry, farming and conservation princes into paupers.

While most firefighters wait for blazes to come to them, the men and women of Working on Fire hike into the mountains, finding flames to put out.

Mop-up operations have continued in St Francis Bay in the Eastern Cape after a blaze destroyed more than 100 houses.

The fire on Devil’s Peak above Cape Town was ”more or less contained”, it was reported on Wednesday afternoon.

The Gordon’s Bay fire was under control on the edges of the residential area by Tuesday afternoon, but still raging on the mountain above the town.

A firefighter in Japan lost his job after city officials found out he had been driving ambulances and fire trucks for over 20 years without a driver’s licence, an official in…