October 2004

Thermal Imaging Training: Company Hazmat Drills

Oct. 1, 2004

Each month, this column provides quick tips that help you and your firefighters learn how to use thermal imagers (TIs) more effectively. As we did in June, this month we will ...

Rescue

Deployable Rollbar Systems

Oct. 1, 2004

SUBJECT:Deployable Rollbar SystemsTOPIC:Design and Operation of Deployable Rollbar SystemsOBJECTIVE:Identify the presence of and understand the operating features for deployable...

Run Surveys

2004 Volunteer Run Survey

Oct. 1, 2004

Firehouse® Magazine presents its 16th annual compilation of statistics on America’s volunteer fire service.

Leadership

Grants Programs: Linking National Dollars To Local Fire Departments

Oct. 1, 2004

Kurt Bradley offers important tips to make the grant-writing process more effective, more productive and more successful for your fire department.

Tech & Comm

Disaster Management Interoperability: An IT Backbone for Emergency Responders

Oct. 1, 2004

In mid-September 2003, Hurricane Isabel slammed into the Atlantic coast, leaving a path of destruction that extended from the Outer Banks of North Carolina and westward to the...

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Operations & Training

Notebooks Nuggets: Searching in Commercial Buildings

Oct. 1, 2004

Richard J. Blatus and Thomas J. Richardson discuss the need to put extra thought into the search in commercial structures.

Safety & Health

When It’s Time To Go: Emergency Escape Techniques

Jim McCormack

Oct. 1, 2004

Jim McCormack reviews two emergency escape methods that may help you get out alive if your primary escape is cut off.

LODDS

Death in the Line of Duty

Oct. 1, 2004

NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program continues to present its investigations of firefighter line-of-duty deaths.

Leadership

Fire-Rescue Service Still Enjoys High Profile Among Candidates

Oct. 1, 2004

Don’t make no waves, don’t back no losers.” That’s the advice a Chicago alderman once gave to a political science professor who asked him for the secret to success in politics...

Tech & Comm

Communication – Part 2: Status Reports

Oct. 1, 2004

By request of the author, this article is not available online

Safety & Health

Routine? Routine? Wake Up! We Don’t Do Routine!

Oct. 1, 2004

Before starting this month’s fire case study, I want to make a few comments regarding “routine.” In the past few weeks, we have read about or even attended funerals for some wonderful...

Safety & Health

Entrapment Hazards Continue to Endanger Firefighters

Oct. 1, 2004

April 1994 – Two Memphis, TN, firefighters die in a high-rise fire. April 2001 – Two Syracuse, NY, firefighters are dragged unconscious from a commercial building fire. August...