Who in the world would knowingly choose a career that offers hours and hours or days and days of strenuous physical labor, limited clean air, no access to large-diameter hoselines...
Richard B. Gasaway begins a two-part series discussing how situation awareness affects your decision making.Part 1 - Understanding Situation Awareness & How It Affects Your Decision...
James J. Schaefer reviews the partnership of Lake Superior State University, in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, as a designated regional training center with fire departments in Michigan...
The long and bitter election campaign is over and now we await a new president and a new Congress to lead the country on an uncertain path through the dangers of an economic recession...
Last month, we began a report on a close call that involved 10 firefighters at a burning commercial structure in Sacramento, CA, on June 5, 2008. As we reported, nine minutes ...
Some years ago, a TV commercial showed a senior citizen by the name of Mrs. Fletcher lying on the floor, next to her walker, yelling, "I've fallen...and I can't get up." The commercial...
SUBJECT: Lifting Heavy Loads - Part 2 TOPIC: Cribbing CrushOBJECTIVE: Understand how a wood box crib performs at failureTASK: Given the need to support a lifted or otherwise unstable...
Unfortunately, there has been a steady increase in the number of firefighters killed behind the wheel of their own personal vehicles recently. This month's column will discuss...
I think T. Boone Pickens is a great American. He is spending his own money on national advertising for his energy plan, a plan that will work, and of course, energy has coupled...
20 Years Later, New Investigation May Yield New Findings Into CauseA hazardous materials explosion that occurred 20 years ago this month claimed the lives of six Kansas City, ...
New Responsibilities Are Introducing Serious New HazardsTurnout gear. Bunkers. Whatever the term is that you use to describe your personal protective equipment (PPE), the objective...
Ask Yourself: Where Should I Be Headed at This Stage in My Life?Let me begin where I left off in my last column by sharing some actual, identifiable data that was developed for...
The annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend took place last month at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD. Honored were the 110 firefighters who died in the...
ROME, NY: Nov. 1, 1908 - Ward Building B of the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women caught fire and threatened about 150 patients, 30 of them bedridden. Amazingly, ...
Q: Please describe any new technologies being incorporated in new and future apparatus.FERRARA: 2008 is a great time to ask this question. We are ready to go with the 2009 edition...
Bradford, PA, April 19, 2008- A fire intentionally started by the occupant destroyed a home. The Bradford City Fire Department was dispatched at 1:19 A.M. for a structure fire...
The four-year fire science program at Lake Superior State University (LSSU), like many of its counterparts, faces budgetary concerns that require some creative thinking for training...