This account is provided by a reader. Chief Goldfeder’s comments follow: Just after midnight, our police department received a telephone call from our sheriff’s department in ...
Question: The U.S. fire service has been on a public-image roller coaster since 9/11. FDNY and all of us endured the catastrophic results of that horrific day. Immediately thereafter...
Every firefighter remembers reporting to duty for his or her first shift. You aren’t sure what to do, so you become a casual observer and follow the lead of the grizzled veterans...
Firefighters are a quirky bunch. Really, we are. Fire apparatus receive daily or weekly checks to ensure that all fluids are topped off and that everything functions as it should...
Curtis S.D. Massey defines the importance of having a plan that can answer any question about a building and its systems, including how to get around, how to cut things off and...
John Newell discusses the operation of hoselines from standpipes at high-rise fires. Success will depend on pre-incident planning of the standpipe systems in buildings and good...
For the 23rd year, the fire service takes to the pages of Firehouse® Magazine to share and compare statistics. Part 3 features the pay scales and the busiest ambulances, chiefs...
Roberta Mersch details a university program tailored to firefighters and presents a case study of David Foster, chief of DeKalb County, GA, Fire and Rescue Department.
Elizabeth Friszell reports on The Mobile Command and Communications Vehicle placed in service by District of Columbia Fire & Rescue and conducts a Q&A with apparatus executive...
It looks as if the federal FIRE Act grant program will survive for the next few years and be funded at somewhere between $500 million and $900 million annually. Though its final...