SMEAL FIRE APPARATUS CO. has acquired the assets of LTI, including LTI ladders, platforms and tractor-drawn aerials, Squrt and TeleSqurt boom-ladders and Snorkel articulating ...
MAY 1: LYNCHBURG, VA – A train carrying crude oil derailed and led to the evacuation of nearby buildings and drinking water was drawn from an old canal system instead as a precaution...
T hink back to your childhood days. Do you remember your parents telling you that life was all about change? As adults, we have learned that change is constant, and we have to...
In this, the second installment in a multi-part series of columns, I met with Bob Andrews, vice president and chief operations officer of community hazard mitigation services ...
SUBJECT: Steering Column, Part 5TOPIC: Total Steering Column RemovalOBJECTIVE: Understand modern vehicle steering wheel and column design TASK: Given an acquired vehicle and rescue...
On Saturday, April 13, 2013, a three-alarm fire destroyed the Liberian Water Side Market in downtown Darby. The fire required the resources of 31 fire departments from Delaware...
Succession planning, changing faces and workforce planning – these are all terms that address a reality facing agencies throughout California and the nation, in both the private...
EDISON, NJ, MARCH 22, 2014 – A 50-year-old unoccupied elementary school was destroyed by a six-alarm fire. Edison firefighters responding to the early-evening fire at the James...
“Standing on the shoulders of giants” is a proverb meant to describe the process of using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual...
Every day, more industrial processes are moving to a new, more active form of the materials they use. This new form is 1,000 times smaller than the micrometer-sized materials ...
One of the most interesting and exciting aspects of being a firefighter is that every run, every alarm and every call for assistance is different from the last run and from the...
THE NEEDHAM, MA, FIRE DEPARTMENT has taken delivery of a KME 79-foot AerialCat rear-mount ladder built on a KME Predator MFD chassis powered by a 450-hp Cummins ISL engine. Components...
Working as a public information officer (PIO) for the past 30-plus years, I have used a number of ways to get information out to the public, mostly through the media.In the very...
While standing at the command post on a working fire, it troubles me to see the efforts that members of the fire service go through to make a stand for something, but cannot help...
It’s 3 o’clock in the morning and the tones go off. “Rescue 8, meet the police at the intersection of Main and 5th streets to check on the welfare of a civilian.”When you arrive...
SAN DIEGO, CA, ADD DATE – Numerous homes lay in ashes after flames jumped from ridge to ridge, destroying everything in their path. Santa Ana winds blew for three days, hampering...
LVFR Receives EMS AwardLas Vegas Fire & Rescue (LVFR) has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Bronze Award that recognizes its commitment and success...
CHARLOTTE, NC: JULY 1, 1914 – The Charlotte Fire Department responded to a barn fire behind the home of a railway contractor. Unknown to the firemen, the contractor had dynamite...
Industrial Fire PumpWATEROUS has introduced the CRU2C21 pump, created with the industrial firefighting market in mind. Rated at 4,000 gpm at 100 psi with flow through rates up...
Like many fire departments around the country, Oregon’s Clackamas Fire District 1 has depended on thermal imagers (TIs) for well over a dozen years as a critical tool in helping...
This concludes a multi-part account of a close call experienced by the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department (M-LFD) of Long Island, NY, at a house fire on Jan. 18, 2014. Thanks...
Editor’s Note: The Firehouse staff wanted to share some of long-time Editor in Chief Harvey Eisner’s work. Harvey, a fixture on New York City firegrounds and at major events and...