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...
There's been a lot going on in and around Washington, D.C., lately. I'm not talking about President Clinton and any of the related investigations but items of interest to the ...
The past two "Street Chemistry" columns have focused on basic groups of hydrocarbon-derivative compounds. Rules for naming and identifying the families and determining the hazards...
Size-up is the mental imaging of many pieces of information gathered as the alarm is initiated, when enroute and while at the incident. Size-up is continuous and essential to ...
What fire officer would let emergency apparatus drivers drink a "few beers" and get behind the wheel of a 26,000-pound fire engine? Members of the Bovard, Crabtree, Greensburg...
This month, the EMS community celebrates EMS Week. EMS Week is always celebrated in the third week of May. This month, EMS Week will be celebrated May 17-23. The theme of this...
This column is probably one which we should not have written. But sometimes you have to say what you think, just so you do not become ashamed of who you are and what you claim...
High-rise fires have plagued this nation's firefighters for nearly a century. Previously, high-rise fires most often occurred in large metropolitan areas, which usually had large...
It was 25 years ago this month that a presidential commission delivered a report entitled, "America Burning," which led to creation of the U.S Fire Administration (USFA) and the...
Wesley W. Hayes Jr. offers a fire marshal's point of view on whether fire departments are adequately involved in the fire service's standards-making process.