It is every firefighter's worst nightmare a radio report to East St. Louis, IL, firefighters en route to a fire at 1336 Piggott Ave. on Nov. 8, 1995, indicated there was a child...
First-due fire chiefs and company officers often face the serious problem of advanced fires spreading to exposed buildings and combustibles. 1 Photo sequence shows two wood panels...
If there was a significant fire or emergency that occurred 100 years ago in your department, or your department's 100th anniversary is coming up, please drop us a line for possible...
The president of the United States, Bill Clinton, apparently has been quite angered and moved by the recent wave of fires in churches in many southern states. In a move unprecedented...
In case you haven't noticed, a millennium is staring us in the face. Are you a fire service dinosaur perishing in the flames of change, or will you be a phoenix rising from the...
If we are to believe television, all a fire marshal must do to effect an arrest is locate the suspect, knock on his door, identify himself as a law enforcement officer and inform...
Major emergencies require response agencies work together. Hazardous material incidents are no different. This was evident in Stoughton, WI, on Dec. 2, 1993. While this incident...
It's been 10 years since Congress enacted the Commercial Drivers' License (CDL) Act. That 1986 law standardized state licensing requirements for operators of commercial trucks...
On the afternoon of Oct. 25, 1995, at least one Cherryvale, KS, workman was very glad that local firefighters had become interested in high angle rescue techniques. At about 2...
"Engine 1 to Command." "Proceed, Engine 1." "Chief, we have knocked down all visible fire, we still have medium smoke and high heat conditions. The primary search is not completed...
The incident command system (ICS), in its simplest terms, is a management process for handling an emergency incident. It allows a manager (the incident commander) of resources...
Now that summer is here and the kids are home, the calls for summertime bumps and spills are starting to come in. This is the busiest time of year for most EMS systems and much...
A wave of arson fires in black churches has prompted an unprecedented nationwide response that reveals a lot about this country and how far we've come since the 1960s. North and...