San Francisco city officials have launched a formal probe into allegations of racism and hazing at their fire training academy, NBC Bay Area has learned. The probe, which began this week, is in ...

The San Francisco Fire Department’s Training Academy is under fire from ex-recruits who say they were subjected to everything from hazing to outright racist abuse at the hands of instructors ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A 13-foot high mural is now on display at San Francisco Fire headquarters. On Friday, a special ceremony was held to unveil the mural created by a group of Academy of Art ...

San Francisco fire Lt. Jonathan Baxter confirmed the death of firefighter/paramedic Jason Cortez at around 10 a.m ... He recently attended the Fire Academy and graduated as a firefighter ...

More than 5,000 firefighters are still on the front lines in Butte County fighting the Camp Fire. Just a few months ago, some of them were cadets in the California Wildland Fire Academy.

A firefighter with the San Francisco Fire Department has died during a training exercise, officials said. Department spokesman Lt. Jonathan Baxter identified the firefighter as Jason Cortez, a ...