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    I had the opportunity to attend a life-saving ceremony about 15 years ago. The EMS service involved was featuring and touting its EMTs and paramedics as walking messiahs who ...
    June 1, 2005
    Photo by John Strickler/The Mercury
    The collapse zone has been cleared. Master streams operate on the fire building as firefighters protect a vacant exposure across the street.
    Jay K. Bradish reports on a fire that destroyed a 100-year-old three-story, mill-type building in downtown Pottstown, PA.
    June 1, 2005
    For the 24th year, the fire service takes to the pages of Firehouse® to share and compare statistics. Part 1 features fire department profiles and total calls for 2004.
    June 1, 2005
    Courtesy of Author
    The house sustained major structural damage in the fire and was demolished later that night.
    I was a firefighter with the City of New Haven, CT, from 1987 to 2004. I had been a captain since 1998 and was assigned to Engine Company 17 on the day of this fire. At 2:32 ...
    June 1, 2005
    Phil Jose, Casey Phillips, Mike Gagliano and Steve Bernocco discuss air management and techniques to learn and practice.
    June 1, 2005
    Joseph T. Berry
    The potential for a backdraft during non-business hours must be assessed by “reading” the smoke.
    Joseph T. Berry details how dollar stores are a threat to firefighters.
    June 1, 2005
    Photo courtesy of Phoenix FD
    Photo 6. Photo from the 1989 Phoenix “near miss” collapse. Note that the gusset plate has completely fallen out and the truss system is held together by friction. Note the “footprint” in the two-by-four-inch truss member where the plate was once seated.
    Gary Morris reports that testing reveals the effects of fire on lightweight truss systems and pose early collapse potential.
    June 1, 2005
    A legal battle is underway over Washington, DC’s effort to ban railroad shipments of hazardous materials within two miles of the U.S. Capitol. It has become a test case that ...
    June 1, 2005
    By request of the author, this article is not available online
    June 1, 2005
    Photo by Ron Moore
    With the decision made to slide the roof out of the driver’s side once it was free, the passenger’s-side pillars were cut at the roofline and the driver’s-side pillars at door level. This gave the team the maximum amount of space to slide the roof out from under the vehicle.
    Subject: NFPA 1670 Vehicle Rescue, Technician-level Skills and Competencies Topic: Advanced Hands-on Training Skill: Total Roof Removal, Roof-resting Vehicle Objective: Given...
    June 1, 2005
    Courtesy of Author
    The trapped fire officer did not transmit a Mayday – he later explained that it was “too hot” inside and that he just wanted to get out as quickly as he could. He was pulled to safety by his fellow firefighters and spent 18 days in the hospital recovering from his burn injuries.
    This month, you will read an account of a fire that occurred at a single-family dwelling. It came in as a mattress fire, but when firefighters arrived, they had a house fire....
    June 1, 2005
    Photo by Robert Burke
    Hooking this emergency decontamination device directly to a hydrant frees apparatus for other operations.
    Whether you are a member of a hazardous materials response team or a first responder, decontamination is one of the most important actions taken by emergency personnel during...
    June 1, 2005
    Goleta, CA, April 6, 2005 – Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to the Engineering Building on the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus after a gas-detection...
    June 1, 2005
    Adequate staffing has long been a fire service concern. Whether it involves the number of career firefighters assigned to ladder and engine companies, or the ability of suburban...
    June 1, 2005
    Photo courtesy of Bullard
    The Gamewell Fire Department in Lenoir, NC (population 6,000), focused on personal appeals, direct mail and media relations to raise money for a thermal imager within just six months. The campaign was led by Gamewell Chief Keith Owens.
    In 1999, the Thorn Township Fire Department, in Thornville, OH (population 3,500), purchased a thermal imager (TI) with money donated largely from local fundraising. Last fall...
    June 1, 2005
    Courtesy of Woodinville, WA, Fire and Life Safety District
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    Question: While there is always so much discussion in the business community about customer service, why is it also so important for a public service such as a fire department...
    June 1, 2005
    Courtesy of Middletown FD
    Quint 5 is positioned at the east (B) side of the structure. The elevated aerial stream and hand lines from this vehicle were alternately played upon the exposure and the fire building.
    Jay K. Bradish details a fast-moving fire that destroyed a 40,000-square-foot building in Middletown, OH.
    June 1, 2005
    Photo courtesy of Greensboro FD
    The newly wrapped city bus in front of the new Greensboro Fire Department Station 11.
    The Greensboro, NC, Fire Department, in collaboration with the Greensboro Transit Authority (GTA), has “wrapped” a GTA city bus as part of a new initiative aimed at educating...
    June 1, 2005
    Photo courtesy Pleasant Gap FD
    Firefighters from the Bellefonte Fire Department stand by with a handline as officials from the Centre County Coroner’s Office and FAA representatives examine the wreckage.
    Coverage of a single-engine aircraft crash; plus the latest "Hot Spots on the Web."
    June 1, 2005
    Firehouse® Magazine continues to offer valuable information in this series of the NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program.
    June 1, 2005
    Photo by Peter Matthews
    Firefighters in Port Washington’s tower ladder utilize their deluge guns to knock down fire in the exposure 4 side of the building, above the garage (lower left), where the fire is believed to have started. The photo shows the exposure 3-4 side.
    Coverage of a mid-afternoon fire posing water and access obstacles.
    June 1, 2005