August 2024

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

August 2024

Digital Edition

Apparatus Innovations: The Continuing Evolution of Apparatus Equipment and Components

Jeffrey D. Gaskin

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...

Operations & Training

As Firehouse Sees It: The Unknown

Peter Matthews

Aug. 22, 2024

Peter Matthews explains how crews' situational awareness kept a close call from being something worse.

Operations & Training

Hot Shots 8/24

Rich Dzierwa

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.

Operations & Training

The Fire Scene: Speed—A Necessary Ingredient

John J. Salka Jr.

Aug. 20, 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

Brandon Heggie

Aug. 19, 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...

More content from August 2024

Operations & Training

Command & Control Success: Command Considerations

Curt Isakson

Aug. 15, 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

Charlie Butterfield

Aug. 14, 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...

Safety & Health

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

Michelle Fayed

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...

Tech & Comm

Research Corner: NERIS—Firefighting Data in the Digital Age

Craig Weinschenk

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.

Confined Space

Technical Rescue: Confined Space & Hazmat—Interoperability = Success

Jake Hoffman

Aug. 8, 2024

Jake Hoffman outlines four main benefits to combined training and response: atmospheric monitoring, PPE selection, decontamination and staffing.

Careers & Education

Implementing a Stay Interview Program in Your Fire Department

Tom Hardy

Aug. 8, 2024

Tom Hardy explains how periodic, informal discussions with both younger and senior members helps in efforts to retain those people.

Leadership

The Aftermath of the Valley Fire of 2015

Chad Costa

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 ...

Careers & Education

FireFusion Preview: Technology for Incident Command & Operations Training

Peter Matthews

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 ...