The union representing forest rangers has filed a grievance against the state over alleged unfair overtime distribution.

In February 2024, DEC Forest Rangers move an ice climber rescued from the North Face of Pitchoff off the Jackrabbit trail to a waiting ambulance at the end of Old Mountain Road in Lake Placid.

An 18-year-old New York State Forest Ranger volunteer and state employee died Saturday while responding to a wildfire near the New York-New Jersey border that sent smoke drifting across New York ...

An 18-year-old New York State Forest Ranger volunteer and state employee died Saturday while responding to a wildfire near the New York-New Jersey border that sent smoke drifting across New York City, ...

POMPTON LAKES, N.J. (AP) — A New York forest ranger died battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have prompted air quality warnings in both ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) — An 18-year-old New York forest ranger has died while fighting a 2,000-acre wildfire burning in New York and New Jersey, according to New York State Police. Dariel Vasquez was ...

He called it the biggest wildfire in the state so far this year. A New York forest ranger responding to the wildfire was killed when a tree fell on him, Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus said ...

Jeremy Oldroyd, a forest ranger with New York state, said that Vasquez died “assisting with fire line construction.” “Wildland firefighting is a very dangerous profession, and we try to take ...