On May 15, 2009, Chicago Fire Department (CFD) Engine 101 and Truck 41 responded to a fire alarm. Once on the scene, they encountered a two-story, ordinary construction, multi...
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a national epidemic. In 2007, an estimated 50 million adults in America had high blood pressure and that number is increasing. The risk...
Last month, we discussed using LCES (Lookouts, Communication, Escape routes and Safety zones) combined with making a fire behavior prediction to determine whether firefighters...
SUBJECT: Second- and Third-row Seating Configurations TOPIC: Third-Row-Seat Occupant Rescue OBJECTIVE: Given a late-model vehicle with an occupant capacity of seven or more passengers...
In August of this year, a man who allegedly lunged at Baltimore City, MD, police officers with a knife was shot and killed. Paramedics responded to the scene, examined the patient...
The San Francisco, CA, Fire Department's goals are to provide the highest quality of emergency services and to promote community participation in fire prevention and disaster ...
The new deputy assistant administrator has been hired and in place for several months, and the new administrator was recently confirmed by the Senate. Yes, the U.S. Fire Administration...
FRANKFURT, GERMANY: OCT 1, 1909 — An explosion started a fire in the building housing the naval exhibit of the International Air Navigation Exposition, quickly enveloping the ...
Important to modern transport and delivery systems are the use of GPS fleet tracking, telematics and mobile resource management programs. Until now, fire departments have yet ...
Hazardous materials response is, and always has been, a logical extension of a fire department's mission of saving lives and property. Similarly, many skills learned as a firefighter...
An increase in hazardous materials call volume in their response areas prompted three northwestern Missouri fire protection districts (FPDs) to combine resources and form the ...
Modern wildfires are no longer contained in just isolated realms of the environmental landscape. Today, many fires are encroaching on the urbanized fringe of countless communities...
Although it has taken almost a year to get the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) back up to full strength, the leadership of the public safety community has not stopped ...
Without a doubt, the process of communicating is critical in every phase of emergency services work. Interestingly enough, how effective we are at communicating on the emergency...
As this was being written on Sept. 10, 2009, the day before the eighth anniversary of the day when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and a hijacked jet...
