There has been discussion recently about whether the focus on firefighter health and safety is impairing our ability to effectively operate at incidents. The concern is that ...
A newly released report from the U.S. Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) titled, "Firefighter and Safety Deployment Study — Report on EMS Field...
SUBJECT: Electric Vehicles TOPIC: Part 4 — Chevrolet VOLT Extrication Procedures OBJECTIVE: Given a crash scenario involving a 2011 Chevrolet VOLT with occupant injury and/or...
We all have been dispatched to runs that sound routine and to others where the dispatcher's voice makes it clear that this run will be serious. The difference should be minimal...
Nov. 21, 2010, marks the 30th anniversary of the MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas, NV. Most of our senior peers from that era remember the MGM tragedy. But even those who were our...
From layoffs and threats of layoffs to pension fights and brownouts — all in the name of saving money — the nation's career firefighters are under assault by the unrelenting ...
LONDON, KY: NOV. 3, 1910 — The Kentucky Secretary of State Ben Bruner and former Congressman Caleb Powers just narrowly escaped death when the hotel in which they were staying...
We have often commented that backing accidents are almost always preventable and they occur with frightening regularity. Not many months go by without reading or hearing about...
On March 16, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the National Broadband Plan (NBP). This launched a new chapter in the ongoing saga of the public safety...
In the quiet Wisconsin woods along the western shore of Lake Michigan, some of the brightest fire service leaders assembled in a mansion designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to produce...
