August 1996

Lawrence Principato gives his first-person account of a 1958 fire in New York's East River.

George Hall reports on a fiery explosion in a gigantic clothing production complex in Methuen. Coverage of major fires in Lawrence and Holyoke also is featured.

Joseph Louderback reports on a rash of church fires.

Ken Koller reports on two separate rescues from high voltage towers in Ventura County, CA.

John Gentless describes a four-alarm fire which destroyed an empty lumber store in Stratford.

Paul Youdelis tells how a fire department joined the wave of World Wide Web surfers.

John J. Burns details the important steps to follow when conducting a meeting.

Dennis Compton discusses steps to help reduce excessive loss control on the fireground.

J. Gordon Routley, Reade Bush and Jeffrey Stern recommend measures that help prevent line-of-duty deaths.

Dwaine E. Booth outlines procedures for conducting funerals and memorial services.

Julius E. Halas offers solutions to a problem that continues to plague the public and the fire service.

William Keith takes a look at the history of the Kansas City, MO, Fire Department.

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...

Michael Heller visits the Accident, MD, VFD.

Pete Stehman shows how riverboat gaming helped turn a fire department's finances around.

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...

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...

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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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...