November 2003

Jay K. Bradish reports on a rapidly spreading fire in an older part of town, with life safety concerns and problems including the close proximity of the buildings, cold temperatures...

Jonathan Bastian discusses three critical steps for fire department leaders to budget and win more thermal imagers.

Joseph P. DiBernardo offers some simple, yet important skills to learn and practice in the event that a firefighter is thought to be missing and no contact can be made.

Tim Geraghty describes the need to use the correct terminology when trapped in private dwellings that appear to be two-story structures that in fact have five different levels...

Joseph T. Berry discusses the cause, strategies and tactics when battling a private dwelling that is consumed within minutes.

Robert M. Winston begins this series on wildfire academies throughout the countries with a look at structural and wildland firefighters training together.

There is a lot to report this month from Capitol Hill on three bills of vital interest to the fire-rescue service: the FIRE Act grant program, the SAFER (Staffing for Adequate...

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Basement fires are probably the most dangerous structural situations a fire department can face. A basement may or may not have exterior access. It may or may not have more than...

SUBJECT:Safety Procedures When Working In or Near Moving TrafficTOPIC:Highway Terminology for Emergency RespondersOBJECTIVE:Identify specific locations of a highway incident scene...

Spontaneous combustion is a sometimes mysterious and often misunderstood or misdiagnosed combustion of flammable materials. I am sure that many fires have been blamed on spontaneous...