One of the most frequently asked questions I receive is whether to buy an apparatus with a custom fire apparatus chassis or a commercial fire apparatus chassis. Why, you may ...
Several definitions on the Internet state that broadband can best be described as, “From the words ‘broad bandwidth’ and is used to describe a high-capacity, two-way link...
About two years ago, Firehouse® Magazine featured a story about the process and effectiveness of U.S. Fire Administration’s (USFA) Quick Response Media Corps. Since that time...
The City of Yuma is located in extreme southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River, near the California border and just a few miles from Mexico. Although situated in the vast ...
Normally, when someone calls 911 and requests the fire department, the nature and location of the emergency is obvious. Family members lead us to ill patients, and the location...
David P. Fornell discusses the need to approach emergency incidents differently in rural as opposed to city environments, three years after he joined a department protecting 88...
Dominic Colletti presents the "Customer Value Proposition," offers ideas for fire departments on limited budgets and reviews some top-level grant-writing and funding-source issues...
The legendary New York Fire Insurance Patrol – the nation’s first and last privately financed salvage brigade – is headed for extinction after 171 years of protecting property...
A single-family-dwelling fire is the most common type of structural fire to which most of us respond. While the house fire profiled this month, in the minds of these Pennsylvania...
SUBJECT: Vehicle Windshields TOPIC: Windshield Crash Damage and "Spider Webs" OBJECTIVE: Responders will be able to assess the condition of the vehicle windshield and determine...