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  • March 2024

    • March 2024

    The March issue of Firehouse Magazine includes feature articles on wildfire suppression, ground ladders your rig must carry and a targeted approach to DEI recruitment and retention. Plus, the online exclusive Combination Fire Department Run Survey.
    Peter Matthews
    Careers & Education

    2023 Combination Fire Department Run Survey

    April 5, 2024
    The Combination Run Survey focuses on fire departments with a mix of career and volunteer firefighters.
    Photo courtesy of the Burton, SC, Fire District
    Community Risk

    Community Risk Reduction: Proactive CRR: The “Vegetable” Approach

    Daniel Byrne
    April 4, 2024
    Daniel Byrne and Lee Levesque tell of how they cleverly got training on opioids and overdoses to the public despite community members' initial resistance.
    Leadership

    First Due: The Art of Communication, Delivery and Confirmation

    David Keyser
    April 3, 2024
    David Keyser stresses how important it is for fire service leaders to abandon their ego to become the most effective communicators.
    Photo by Jonathan Hall
    Operations & Training

    Engine Essentials: Chock Talk

    Jonathan Hall
    April 2, 2024
    Jonathan Hall details which doors must be secured open and closed in dwellings, apartments buildings, commercial buildings and high-rises and which devices to use on which.
    Photo by Pete Danzo
    Operations & Training

    Hot Shots 3/24

    Firehouse Staff
    March 29, 2024
    On arrival at a motor vehicle accident, command reported a rolled over and fully involved gasoline tanker truck, a fully involved structure and numerous automobiles burning.

    More content from March 2024

    Apparatus

    The Fire Scene: Apparatus Positioning

    John J. Salka Jr.
    March 28, 2024
    John J. Salka Jr. provides important food for thought for the driver and officer of a first-arriving engine regarding where their rig should be located.
    Photos courtesy of The Hazmat Guys
    Rescue

    Technical Rescue: What Is Solubility, and Why Should You Care?

    Bobby Salvesen
    March 25, 2024
    Bobby Salvesen explains why firefighters should remind themselves of the details of the information on solubility, in particular, that they received during their hazmat training...
    Photo by Andrew Roach
    Operations & Training

    Wildfire Suppression: Considerations for the Structural Firefighter

    Andrew Roach
    March 25, 2024
    Andrew Roach points out that, although firefighters who typically attack structure fires are rather prepared to defend structures in the wildland firefighting environment, they...
    Photos by Tom W. Shand
    Apparatus

    The Apparatus Architect: The Ground Ladders that Your Rigs Must Carry

    Tom Shand
    March 21, 2024
    Tom Shand and Michael Wilbur explain how apparatus committees should consider ground ladder specification on new vehicles in light of the new NFPA 1900.
    Leadership

    As Firehouse Sees It: When Leader Accountability Is Most Important: Member Health & Safety

    Peter Matthews
    March 21, 2024
    Peter Matthews urges officers, deputy chiefs and chiefs to have the difficult conversations with members regarding exposure to cancer-causing toxins.
    Image courtesy of Little Diversified Architectural Consulting
    Stations

    Station Design: The Importance of Programming in Fire Station Design

    Lynn Reda
    March 17, 2024
    Lynn Reda provides a blueprint for creating a document that specifies size, components, spaces, functionality, aesthetics and budget allocation before any concrete steps are taken...
    Careers & Education

    For the Record 3/24

    Firehouse Staff
    March 12, 2024
    Globe Gear Giveaway MSA Safety, DuPont Personal Protection and the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) are teaming up again in 2024 to provide 13 in-need volunteer fire departments...
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    EMS

    EMS: Good Mentors Never Really Die

    Maggie Coen-Murphy
    March 8, 2024
    Maggie Coen-Murphy benefitted from being on both sides of the mentor/mentee situation with a longtime barn boss of the Chicago Fire Department.
    Photo courtesy of VOXHUB
    Careers & Education

    Recruitment & Diversity: A Targeted Approach

    Vincent Rocha
    March 6, 2024
    Vince Rocha tells how fined-tuned grouping of potential applicant pools aids in catching the interest of people who might dismiss fire service opportunities when they're alerted...