August 2024

The August issue of Firehouse includes feature articles on apparatus innovations, wildland firefighting, recruitment & retention and a preview of FireFusion.
Operations & Training

The Fire Scene: Speed—A Necessary Ingredient

Sept. 6, 2024
John J. Salka Jr. stresses not only that quick performance of certain emergency operation tactics is required but also minimizes the danger that's associated with them.
EMS

EMS: All Jacked Up

Sept. 5, 2024
Brandon Heggie discloses aspects of energy drinks and their effects when they are consumed in excess and what that means to EMS providers who encounter a patient who drank many...
Photo courtesy of the Toledo Fire & Rescue Department
Confined Space

Technical Rescue: Confined Space & Hazmat—Interoperability = Success

Sept. 4, 2024
Jake Hoffman outlines four main benefits to combined training and response: atmospheric monitoring, PPE selection, decontamination and staffing.
Photos by Shannon Hoffman
Operations & Training

Command & Control Success: Command Considerations

Sept. 3, 2024
Curt Isakson reflects on a fire at a converted motel to explain why numerous factors of an incident must be contemplated in regard to communication and the request for resources...
Leadership

First Due: Lead Like a Genius

Sept. 2, 2024
Charlie Butterfield explains why fire service leaders can benefit from Einstein's practices of learning through failure, letting one's mind wander and prioritizing relationships...

More content from August 2024

Fire Research
Apparatus Components

Apparatus Innovations: The Continuing Evolution of Apparatus Equipment and Components

Aug. 23, 2024
Jeffrey D. Gaskin's years of needs-assessment and specification-writing experience means he knows apparatus componentry innovation when he sees it. The recent work of four suppliers...
Peter Matthews
Peter Matthews Fort Worth Close Call
Operations & Training

As Firehouse Sees It: The Unknown

Aug. 22, 2024
Peter Matthews explains how crews' situational awareness kept a close call from being something worse.
Photo by Peter Matthews
Operations & Training

Hot Shots 8/24

Aug. 21, 2024
Fort Worth Fire Department firefighters found heavy fire on the Bravo side of a renovated two-story house with reports that people possibly still were inside.
Photo by Michelle Fayed
Safety & Health

Health & Wellness: A Grateful Heart—The Missing Key in First Responder Mental Health?

Aug. 13, 2024
Michelle Fayed provides a clearcut argument for why members of the fire service must make concerted efforts to reflect on the positives of their day for the benefit of their mental...
Photo by John Odegard
Technology

Research Corner: NERIS—Firefighting Data in the Digital Age

Aug. 9, 2024
Craig Weinschenk, Tom Jenkins and Dustin Andres provide the ultimate explanation of the successor to NFIRS and how and why departments will benefit from its implementation.
Photo by Glen E. Ellman
Careers & Education

Implementing a Stay Interview Program in Your Fire Department

Aug. 8, 2024
Tom Hardy explains how periodic, informal discussions with both younger and senior members helps in efforts to retain those people.
Photos courtesy of CAL FIRE
Leadership

The Aftermath of the Valley Fire of 2015

Aug. 7, 2024
Chad Costa explains how a new mindset regarding post-wildfire management emerged from the ashes of the disaster that destroyed 19,055 structures and buildings and killed four ...
John Oates
Careers & Education

FireFusion Preview: Technology for Incident Command & Operations Training

Aug. 2, 2024
The one-of-a-kind FireFusion conference provides in-depth information to fire departments, chiefs, officers and firefighters on how the latest technology can improve incident ...