Merced City Fire Captain Bryan Akers, right, and his son Mason, left, while deployed to assist with firefighting efforts on ...

Eight members of the Merced City Fire Department have been deployed to assist in the firefighting effort of wildfires raging in southern California. On Jan. 8, the department sent two fire engines ...

We were on the same dirt road out in the middle of nowhere, and I just kind of took the opportunity to go say hi to my boy," Bryan Akers, a captain with the Merced Fire Department, told Fox News ...

was initiated today at 11:25 a.m. in Merced County. The prescribed fire has been burning on federal land managed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. At present, information regarding the ...