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Rural, cold climate communities, such as those in coastal and northern Newfoundland and Labrador, face documented challenges pertaining to financial and infrastructure constraints and changing personnel considerations. Fire service delivery must adapt to these realities. The aim of this paper is to understand the scope of the scholarly and grey literature addressing challenges and solutions for fire service delivery and firefighting in rural and cold climate contexts, particularly as they pertain to Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The review was conducted using an academic search engine, topic-specific search engines, grey literature databases, and a review of relevant websites to produce information sources. Peerreviewed articles, professional reports, theses and dissertations, and other article types indicated several challenges and solutions. The challenges identified were represented in scholarly and grey literature. These included challenges related to resources, the environment, firefighting tasks, and community. Likewise, solutions centred around resources, firefighting tasks, and community were represented in both scholarly and grey literature. Specific identification of future research needs was limited in the research reviewed. Further investigation and evaluation of the efficacy of solutions for specific cold climate, rural regions are advised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]