The April issue of Firehouse Magazine includes feature articles on firefighter training, fire-based EMS, thermal imaging and previews of the Station Design Conference and the new FireFusion event. There is also a special Apparatus Supplement and the results of our annual Volunteer Fire Department Run Survey.
Fifty-one regular sessions and four pre-conference sessions will make the 10th anniversary of the event the most useful in the history of the Conference.
Greater sophistication of rigs reinforces the importance of comprehensive planning by members of an apparatus committee and the people who will operate on the vehicles.
Billy Goldfeder tells of how preparation with full PPE and SCBA and detailed size-up prevented a firefighter from being injured when an explosion occurred in a communications ...
Jeffrey D. Gaskin wants fire organizations, particularly volunteer departments, to think twice about whether the cost of a function, feature or component on a new apparatus is...
Mark Miller details the state-of-the-art regarding in-cab planning to help apparatus committee members specify facets that aid members in various ways.
John J. Salka Jr. provides seven areas of scrutiny beyond fire suppression and no injuries that departments must consider in the determination of a correctly accomplished response...
Greg Stone shares eight questions that should be answered to uncover many of the "absolutes" that should be written into a specification for a new apparatus.
Matt Coffey tells why the results of a 2022 survey of 253 firefighters indicate that traumatic stress and problems with significant relationships can't remain the only factors...
Frank Dellucky tells what his department learned about improving its education of high school seniors for fire service work after the first semester of instruction.
This special Fire Apparatus Supplement includes feature articles on objective-driven apparatus specification, applying apparatus costs wisely, and apparatus cab design and layout...