Jacob is your community news reporter covering the Santa Maria Valley. Through Saturday, training exercises are underway for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, with the goal of getting academy ...

LOMPOC, Calif. - Santa Barbara County Fire Academy recruits performed a dramatic series of live drills at the Allan Hancock College Public Safety Complex in Lompoc on Tuesday morning. For more than ...

BEN LOMOND — A volunteer recruit with the Santa Cruz County Fire Department died Sunday during a weekend training exercise, county officials said Tuesday. According to a county release, Daniel Lamothe ...

MILTON, Fla. (WALA) - Santa Rosa County officials are preparing for their upcoming hurricane exercise next month. The annual drill helps emergency crews prepare for real-world disaster response. The ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — On Saturday, a community outside of Santa Fe prepared and simulated what could happen if a wildfire sparked near their homes. “We’re doing an exercise that we’ve been planning for six ...