Cancer Prevention

In a major West Coast expansion, Gear Wash has announced its acquisition of Advanced PPE Company, a verified Independent Service Provider (ISP) with operations in Ventura, CA.

Gear Wash Continues Strong Growth with Strategic Acquisition of Advanced PPE

Feb. 5, 2025

The Gear Wash network now encompasses 13 brick-and-mortar locations in proximity to some of the nation’s largest fire departments.

Safety & Health

Trump EPA Official Scraps Plan for Stricter Rules on PFAS

Jan. 27, 2025

Virginia Beach Captain Matthew ‘Chevy’ Chiaverott

Safety & Health

VA Legislators Propose Naming Bridge for Fallen Virginia Beach Fire Captain

Jan. 24, 2025

Stations

Four Questions About Your Fire Station

Janet A. Wilmoth

Jan. 21, 2025

Cancer Prevention

Vector Solutions Expands Efforts for Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month 2025

Vector Solutions

Jan. 15, 2025

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A full-face respirator that has P100 filters or SCBA should be used by fire investigators when they enter the fire scene, particularly in areas that have visible soot or debris. This investigator should put on gloves if he is going to touch anything that’s contaminated.

Safety & Health

Protecting Fire Investigators from Carcinogens

Jessica HIll

Jan. 8, 2025

Cancer Prevention

Firehouse Supplement: Cancer Awareness & Prevention

Jan. 7, 2025

Cancer Prevention

Occupational Cancer is Killing Fire Fighters

International Association of Fire Fighters - IAFF

Dec. 20, 2024

Testing in Fairfax County, VA, provided valuable insights into best practices for preliminary exposure reductions. Using a contamination surrogate, the study determined optimal brush styles and usage timing for effective decon. Note the contamination that still is on the mask and neck area.

Safety & Health

Exposure Reduction for Aggressive Fire Departments

Dec. 19, 2024

The TG-6H heated bunker gear dryer holds as many as 12 pieces of gear, 6 helmets and 18 accessories.

Safety & Health

Firehouse Labs: Ram Air Gear Dryer TG-6H

Firehouse Staff

Dec. 19, 2024

Cancer Prevention

Firefighter Cancer: The Massachusetts Experience

Christine Kannler

Dec. 18, 2024

Christine Kannler details how free skin cancer screenings at one department grew to now serve as a model for the fire service across the country.

It can be challenging to reapply sunscreen regularly during a day of outdoor training, with so much going on and the least thing that’s thought about being sun protection. Wearing SPF clothing takes sunscreen out of the equation for the parts of the body that the clothing covers.

Safety & Health

SPF Clothing: Protect Your Skin On and Off the Fireground

Frank Leeb

Dec. 18, 2024

Frank Leeb taps his inner tailor to provide everything that members must know about clothing that protects against the sun's harmful rays to minimize cancer risks.

Firefighters are 1.31 times more likely to develop brain cancer than the general population is. Complacency is members' worst enemy.

Safety & Health

Heads Up! Raising Awareness of Occupational Brain Cancer

John Haseney

Dec. 17, 2024

John Haseney shares data from firefighter-focused brain cancer studies and symptoms that members who have brain cancer experience, all in effort to turn complacency into awareness...