The controversy over freight trains hauling hazardous cargoes through downtown Washington, DC, has come back to life with a new report issued by the National Capital Planning ...
Most fire departments these days are focused on the fact that "something" may go wrong at a fire. Be it a structural/building construction issue, interior conditions, a staffing...
At a minimum of once every two weeks, I get one of those dreaded e-mails distributed by the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). It is the announcement of a firefighter death in the...
SUBJECT: Airbags TOPIC: "Hidden" Frontal Airbags OBJECTIVE: Given late-model vehicles to inspect, the rescuer shall be able to recognize the presence of, the location and the ...
April 16, 1947, started out like any other spring day along the Gulf Coast in the town of Texas City, TX, population 16,000. Longshoremen busily loaded ships at the Port of Texas...
This month, the column will examine a two-part question from a firefighter in California. He asks, One of our companies used its thermal imager at what turned out to be a fatal...
Until you are incapacitated, even for a short time, you don't realize how much help you need from other people.We are told that at least 70% of fire departments across the country...
Everywhere you go, firefighters are talking about their probationary firefighters, the probies. Some have lots of them and complain about all the inexperience, about everything...