COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY has announced that the winner of the CSU/Arizona Fire Chiefs Association (AFCA) annual scholarship is Battalion Chief Frank Ricci of the Casa Grande...
Over the past two decades, there has been a large focus on physical fitness as a way to improve firefighter health and reduce injuries. While this approach has had some success...
For years, fire departments were simply reactive response organizations that went out when “the bell” rang. We took the same amount of equipment and number of people to every ...
Question 1 – What is a vacant building? What criteria do you use to determine that a structure is unoccupied?In the 1970s, some fire departments had separate categories for fires...
After many months of effort, the fire department’s apparatus committee was given the go ahead to prepare specifications to replace Engine 3, a 1985-vintage, 1,250-gpm pumper that...
Compact Thermal ImagerBULLARD has introduced the Eclipse LD, a compact, high-performance thermal imager equipped with a state-of-the-art thermal imaging engine and the latest ...
On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision on what has been unofficially labeled “Obamacare.” Unless you have been in a cave, you known the court upheld...
Barry Furey explains the critical role that dispatchers and communications centers play during active-shooter events. They play an important role in firefighter safety through...
It’s easy to find ourselves focused solely on fire service and government issues as we see them from our geographic location in the country. In other words, we assume that what...
On Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, a four-alarm fire destroyed one historic building and severely damaged another in downtown Iowa City, IA.That the fire was controlled and extinguished...
A federal appeals court has rejected a claim made by the survivors of a Baltimore City, MD, firefighter killed in a training exercise that her civil rights were violated. However...