When and where a fireground commander orders the first attack hoseline to be stretched is a critical decision at a building fire.Most structural fires are extinguished by the ...
A recent column on the volunteer fire service and its efforts to be included in the President's Summit on America's Future (Firehouse, June 1997) has brought several interesting...
Michael J. Ward discusses some important suggestions to help you secure a job with a metropolitan fire department.Psst! Wanna know a secret? All of your fire college and state...
Almost all engine company apparatus are equipped with some type of master stream device. These appliances are used to quickly deliver large volumes of water in short order from...
This is the year that "downeasterners" (as residents of Maine are referred to) are commemorating the great forest and structural wildland interzone fires of October 1947.A lengthy...
Enforcement guidelines issued recently by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have stirred up a legal controversy that could be important to fire departments...