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    The two-part Command Post series "The Decline and Fall of the Volunteer Fire Service?" by Contributing Editor Harry R. Carter, Ph.D., in the February and March issues of Firehouse...
    May 1, 2006
    David P. Fornell
    Take a little time to step back and evaluate your operation. This pumper was upgraded by mounting a two-inch, 250-gpm, low-pressure attack line within easy reach and then mounting new truck tools in spots that are easy to access. These hooks replaced old, splintered wood-handle pike poles that were mounted over the hosebed.
    David P. Fornell discusses the need to approach emergency incidents differently in rural as opposed to city environments, three years after he joined a department protecting 88...
    May 1, 2006
    Dominic Colletti presents the "Customer Value Proposition," offers ideas for fire departments on limited budgets and reviews some top-level grant-writing and funding-source issues...
    May 1, 2006
    Keith Hanley details how Toronto firefighters thought they were responding to a "routine" car fire, but what followed was anything but - and it was all captured on film.
    May 1, 2006
    Jerry Woods/Philipsburg FD
    Osceola Mills Engine 22-2 supplies Madera Tower 25 on Presqueisle Street (side D) as its crew advances attack lines to the second floor. At left is Alpha Tower 5-16, which operates its ladder pipe, supplied by Houtzdale Engine 23-1.
    Jay K. Bradish reports on a blaze that raised many lessons learned, including the need for fire departments to maintain updated pre-plans of older structures in their jurisdictions...
    May 1, 2006
    The legendary New York Fire Insurance Patrol – the nation’s first and last privately financed salvage brigade – is headed for extinction after 171 years of protecting property...
    May 1, 2006
    By request of the author, this article is not available online
    May 1, 2006
    Photo Courtesy of Author
    Extreme heat distorted a light fixture on the ceiling of a room on the second floor.
    A single-family-dwelling fire is the most common type of structural fire to which most of us respond. While the house fire profiled this month, in the minds of these Pennsylvania...
    May 1, 2006
    Photo by Ron Moore
    Be real careful here. It is not normal, although possible, that a deploying passenger frontal airbag will tear a hole in the laminated glass. Look at the glass for hair or flesh on the inside and the outside. This damage could be caused by a person or object into which this vehicle ran.
    SUBJECT: Vehicle Windshields TOPIC: Windshield Crash Damage and "Spider Webs" OBJECTIVE: Responders will be able to assess the condition of the vehicle windshield and determine...
    May 1, 2006
    Several definitions on the Internet state that broadband can best be described as, “From the words ‘broad bandwidth’ and is used to describe a high-capacity, two-way link...
    May 1, 2006
    In a previous column, I wondered whether “EMS Wars II†is about to happen again. If you remember from the March 2006 column, I pondered whether the fighting between public...
    May 1, 2006
    It was a cold morning with temperatures in the 30s. The light precipitation was a prelude to the forecast of significant snow for Prince George’s County, MD. The northwesterly...
    May 1, 2006
    One of the most frequently asked questions I receive is whether to buy an apparatus with a custom fire apparatus chassis or a commercial fire apparatus chassis. Why, you may ...
    May 1, 2006
    The City of Atlanta is a thriving, bustling, urbanized community. Being the home of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as well as boasting a comprehensive interstate highway...
    May 1, 2006
    Courtesy of Author
    In 2003, Chicago firefighters used thermal imagers to track a fast-moving electrical fire that was traveling through the basement ceiling of the 146-year-old Holy Family Church. The fire was stopped just minutes before destroying the historic structure.
    Normally, when someone calls 911 and requests the fire department, the nature and location of the emergency is obvious. Family members lead us to ill patients, and the location...
    May 1, 2006
    About two years ago, Firehouse® Magazine featured a story about the process and effectiveness of U.S. Fire Administration’s (USFA) Quick Response Media Corps. Since that time...
    May 1, 2006