Service, Leadership, and Relevance! These values define our mission and guide how we educate and support more than 100,000 distance learners studying in all 50 states. American...
The job of an incident commander (IC) can be a trying one. Coordinating a scene full of firefighters and apparatus and performing a multitude of tasks in a life-threatening situation...
Barry Furey cites recent events that will shape the future of fire service communications, from funding opportunities to upgraded hardware and software.
These are the days when political candidates scramble to get their pictures taken with firefighters down at the local firehouse. They come around every two to four years (depending...
This month, we have a unique first-hand view at a horribly tragic line-of-duty death; not a close call, but a death. And since the circumstances of every firefighter fatality ...
SUBJECT: Safe Parking TOPIC: 2008 UpdateOBJECTIVE: Update of Safe Parking Protocols for Responders Working In or Near Moving TrafficTASK: Highway incident scene responders shall...
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau (http://www.fcc.gov/pshs/) officially began operations on Sept. 25, 2006. This bureau is...
Last month's column asked whether we in the fire service are doing everything we can to raise awareness of America's biggest fire problem -- fires in residential occupancies. ...
As we begin a new year, may this be the year that we operate more safely. Let this year be less deadly for firefighters than 2007. With this in mind, the International Association...
Seattle, WA, is the largest city in the Northwest and 22nd largest in the United States. Situated between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, the city is 96 miles south of the...
Alert-All designed the original Tot Finder Fire Rescue Sticker and is the creator of Freddie Firefighter, Cappy Firedog, Today’s Heroes, Fire Safety Xtreme Team that appear in...