May 2007

Jay K. Bradish discusses a fire problem in Bellefonte, PA, after three-alarm fire destroyed a 138-year-old downtown hotel.

Brian Bastinelli reports on a three-alarm fi re in an apartment complex that left 50 residents homeless and was sparked by a woman piling combustibles on a stove.

Coverage of a blaze in a Pennsylvania bowling center; plus the latest "Hot Spots on the Web."

Mark Emery continues this series with Command-ment III: Thou shall identify, factor and monitor three situations that kill firefighters.

Chris Langlois reviews the much-debated issue of a functionally effective system for the accountability of firefighters on the fireground.

Firehouse Magazine conducts a question-and-answer roundtable with the manufacturers of hydraulic and electric rescue tools.

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 ...

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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...