Speaking at the recent Tactical Interoperable Communications Conference in Washington, DC, in May, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff noted, "I’m going to tell you...
Keeping track of firefighters has never been easy. All kinds of folks claim to have great systems that solve the problem. I recently spoke to an individual who claimed that he...
The next few Marketing ICS columns will focus on one of the most critical areas contributing to the leadership of any fire department: the development of a marketing or public...
The City of Orlando Fire Department has been providing fire and rescue service to citizens and visitors in Orlando since 1885. Organized firefighting in Orlando began in the ...
Every month, this column emphasizes how a thermal imager (TI) can make a firefighter’s job easier and safer. This month’s column is the first installment of a three-part ...
For the 25th year, the career fire service takes to the pages of the Firehouse® Magazine to share and compare statistics about company and department activity levels, funding...
Curtis S.D. Massey continues this series about the dangers of power supplies and how they impact operations and safety. (With "The Birth of the 'Rapid Ascent Team' ")
Michael Wilbur and Tom Shand discuss the purpose of combination rigs: to deliver a wide variety of tools, equipment and personnel to an incident in a safe manner.
In November 2005, Firehouse® Magazine asked fire apparatus manufacturers to join a roundtable addressing the important issue of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
Ted Jarboe details how firefighters are already "standing in queue" to become "statistics" in future line-of-duty death annual reports. And, they don’t know it.
Joseph T. Berry discusses how firefighters operating at self-storage facilities can be at great risk of being exposed to dangerous objects and hazardous materials.
The FIRE Act program has come under attack in the news media and in Congress by misinformed people who have no understanding of the serious health and safety problems facing ...
Subject: Vehicle Lock-InsTopic: Protocols for Vehicle Lock-In IncidentsObjective: Review the life-threatening hazards associated with a child locked inside a vehicle and train...