Incident size-up is a critical first step that helps ensure firefighter safety as well as the successful conclusion of an incident. Effective and proficient use of a thermal imager...
av·a·lanche – 1. A fall or slide of a large mass, as of snow or rock, down a mountainside. 2. A massive or overwhelming amount; a flood: “I received an avalanche of mail.” Over...
Question: What business are we really in? Over the past 20 years, the effectiveness of fire prevention and the increase in multiple services from EMS to hazmat have redefined ...
For decades, fire prevention efforts have focused primarily on three areas: detection, suppression and public fire education. However, despite advances in detection and suppression...
The Pahrump, NV, Fire Department was dispatched to a reported grease fire in the kitchen of the Mountain View Casino. Jay K. Bradish reports on what became the largest fire in...
From the very beginning, fire service leaders and local government officials warned that funneling federal anti-terrorism funds to the cities by way of the state capitols was ...
If you have followed this column for any length of time, or even if you haven’t but you have been a firefighter for more than a few years, you have been able to figure out that...