January 2008

Tom Shand and Michael Wilbur continue this series with a discussion about fleet replacements for fire departments.

A small group of highly respected fire marshals have formed a coalition to study the nation's fire prevention effort to determine what programs are working and where it is failing...

Single-family-dwelling fires. For most of us, that's the most common structural fire we respond to, also know as a "bread-and-butter" run when the tones go off. But while in some...

As those in public safety have long known and many official reports have codified, there are five key issues that hamper public safety wireless telecommunications today. There...

SUBJECT: Airbag Supplemental Restraint SystemsTOPIC: Understanding airbag deployment criteriaOBJECTIVE: The responder will list and explain the conditions that must be met to ...

During my first year as the public education officer for the Beaufort, SC, Fire Department, I diligently and enthusiastically set up a fire prevention program for all of our elementary...

The day I began to write this column, 105 firefighters had been killed in the line of duty in 2007. There has never been more attention and resources directed toward the issue...

Firehouse Magazine invited a cross-section of apparatus manufacturers to join our latest roundtable discussion, this time centering on design issues.

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