Each week the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) releases the “Forest Rangers Week in Review.” For the week of March 4 through March 10, Forest Rangers in Hamilton County rescued an ...

The Payson Ranger District’s helitack team, which fights fires via helicopter, at times rappelling to the forest floor, has moved there from trailers that it formerly worked out of at the Payson ...

By 12:15 p.m., both forest rangers were at the crash site preparing the survivors to be hoisted into the helicopter. "I think they were a little uncomfortable having to get back into an aircraft ...