March 2009

Firehouse Magazine asks fire service leaders to discuss ways to keep firefighters fit and healthy, on and off duty, with the goal of reducing health related fatalities and injuries...

Charles Werner provides an overview of the significant ways that computers are transforming the fire service in management, training, preparedness and response; plus the latest...

Politics meets performance in many different ways and plays out every day as fire departments strive to deliver service throughout the country. We all know how much impact elected...

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It began more than a year earlier - initial discussions, concepts, exchanges of ideas and an open forum with key members of the Los Angeles Fire Department, including Deputy Chief...

This two-part column, which began in February, covers one of the most critical aspects of avoiding close calls: appropriate staffing on the first alarm. We opened by reviewing...

Last year, my two teenagers were with me in the car on the night of the Fourth of July. In most communities, nighttime on the Fourth of July is busy with fires and EMS calls. ...

Firefighters and members of law enforcement work side by side, day in and day out. In 99% of cases, the relationships are respectful, even cordial. However, occasionally conflicts...

SUBJECT: Lifting Heavy Loads - Part 6 TOPIC: Safety When Lifting Heavy LoadsOBJECTIVE: Understand necessary safety considerations when lifting heavy loadsTASK: Given various scenarios...

There is an abundance of material written and spoken about the things firefighters do wrong. We are bombarded daily about omissions, corrections that need to be made to our behavior...

On Dec. 30, 2007, shortly before 6 P.M., Bonner Springs Police were dispatched on a report of a suicidal man who had cut himself with a knife and left the residence. When officers...