I recently returned to duty after suffering an injury earlier last year. I will remain assistant chief in my fire department through 2008. It didn't take long for me to get my...
A great deal of time and energy are being devoted to a discussion of the concepts of shared services and consolidation. There are those in the political world parading through...
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...
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...
SUBJECT: Airbag Supplemental Restraint SystemsTOPIC: Understanding airbag deployment criteriaOBJECTIVE: The responder will list and explain the conditions that must be met to ...
Did you catch the headline several months ago? You might have, but probably by now you have forgotten about it as more priorities happen in your life or since you can't do anything...
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...
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...
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...