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    • July 2024

    The July issue of Firehouse includes feature articles on forcible entry, leadership and fire-based EMS, plus two special Firehouse Survey results, Mentoring in the Fire Service and part two of the National Run Survey.

    More content from July 2024

    First-arriving units found a well-involved attached garage with extension to the dwelling.
    First-arriving units in Bel Air, MD, found a well-involved attached garage with extension to the dwelling.
    July 26, 2024
    Photo by Trevor James
    Cutting the metal tabs that are either built into the brick around a window or that are attached to the brick is the fastest, least strenuous of the three methods for attacking those tabs. Beating away the corner of the brick where a tab is set into mortar and getting behind the carriage bolt that attaches a tab to the brick require more work on the firefighter’s part but aren’t too time consuming.
    Robert "RJ" James unlocks the fireground clues to removing devices that keep intruders out of homes and businesses, so victims and firefighters can get out.
    July 24, 2024
    Photo by Victorian Simmons
    EMS paramedics EMT Richard Bossert motor vehicle accident patient treatment removal
    Richard Bossert applies his experience as a board-certified vehicle rescue instructor to inform EMS providers and rescue technicians that MVA patient treatment and removal must...
    July 22, 2024
    Photos courtesy of Baltimore County, MD, Fire Department
    By positioning at a 45-degree angle to block for crews who operated on scene of an adult male who was having a diabetic emergency on the right shoulder of Interstate 95, Baltimore County, MD, Fire Department Engine 481 save those members from injury or worse when a passenger car that was traveling on the interstate struck BCoFD Squad 483, which was in blocking position behind E481.
    Billy Goldfeder learned why members who were on scene of a medical emergency on an interstate came away relatively unscathed when their apparatus were struck by a separate passenger...
    July 22, 2024
    Photos by Aaron Zamzow
    Tire flips help to build strength and lifting technique. Furthermore, tires for this can be obtained from retired fire apparatus and tractors. In other words, the financial investment is minimal.
    Aaron Zamzow explains how cash-strapped, size-constrained fire stations can facilitate functional workouts in ways other than via the purchase of exercise machines.
    July 17, 2024
    Responsibility for the decision regarding number of lengths of hose and ensuring that flow of water at the nozzle is unimpeded is imperative.
    John J. Salka Jr. tells why no member should consider the position a lesser assignment.
    July 16, 2024
    Photos by Nick Lehoux
    Off-site fabrication and rapid assembly of Rancho Mission Viejo’s Fire Station 67 enabled the design/documentation/permitting process to be streamlined, so construction could begin in a matter of months, not years. Further, once construction did begin, it was completed in six months.
    Matt Wittman tells the tale of the design, fabrication and construction of an interim firehouse that can change viewpoints across the fire service.
    July 16, 2024
    Maintaining the status quo is an organizational death sentence. To prevent this, an organizational vision that communicates the leaders’ strategic intent and points to the direction in which the organization is moving must be identified.
    Kristopher Blume tells how a department can entice energy, effort and resources and feed innovation via a well-crafted organizational vision.
    July 15, 2024
    Photos by Jonathan Hall
    It’s vital to attempt to verify the precise location(s), or at least the general area, of the fire from the exterior by examining smoke and/or fire characteristics.
    Jonathan Hall speaks to five particular elements of single-family dwellings as they relate to size-up and what they can mean as far as firefighter safety and strategies and tactics...
    July 10, 2024
    Ed Rush shares his story of attending the funeral of a fallen member as a way to remind everyone of important this tradition is.
    Ed Rush shares his story of attending the funeral of a fallen member as a way to remind everyone of how important this tradition is.
    July 9, 2024