On Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, fire destroyed the North Star Building in downtown Jamestown, ND. The building was owned by Vining Oil Co. and was being used for storage. It contained...
LONG BEACH, NY, DEC. 21, 2011 – Firefighters from Point Lookout-Lido, Island Park and Oceanside assisted Long Beach at a house fire. Two firefighters suffered injuries. Photo ...
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ, JAN. 19, 2012 – Farmington Volunteer Fire Company 4 of the Egg Harbor Township Fire Department, the Egg Harbor Township Technical Rescue Team (TRT) and...
Firehouse: Las Vegas Fire & Rescue recently went through the accreditation process for the second time, and has been reaccredited by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International...
Performing other than fire-related rescues is nothing new for the fire service. From a child’s head caught in a banister to a person trapped in heavy machinery, a firefighter ...
THE LUTHERVILLE FIRE COMPANY in Baltimore County, MD, has taken delivery of a Pierce pumper built on a Pierce Arrow XT chassis powered by a 500-hp Detroit Diesel engine. Components...
NASH COUNTY, NC, APRIL 15, 2012 – Four stations were dispatched for a log home on fire. An interior attack was made, but units were driven out by the advancing fire. Firefighters...
I know this doesn’t sound as interesting to the typical firefighter as training on rapid intervention or roof cutting, but when conducted correctly and regularly, this training...
Whether you occupy the right-front seat on a full-time basis or you are just filling in, you are expected to do certain things and make certain decisions. Leadership skills are...
As a past chief of a sizeable volunteer fire company and a public information officer (PIO) for the preceding 27 years, I greatly appreciated your April and May issues, which ...
Even as many local and state budgets have begun to stabilize, fire departments continue to find themselves in the middle of discussions by elected officials and other policy-makers...
On the day I am writing this, a person shot five people at a cafe near the University of Washington in Seattle and then shot himself in the head as police closed in on him. His...
Back in 2007, Firehouse® published the first installment of Mark Emery’s 11-part series “The Ten Command-Ments of Intelligent and Safe Fireground Operations.” The series began...
Regional hazardous materials response teams were located throughout Kentucky in the late 1980s. By the end of the 1990s, however, many teams had disbanded for various reasons,...
Christopher J. Naum examines building types and classifications to anticipate variables in structural integrity and resiliency to the effects of extreme fire behavior for firefighters...
More than 100 firefighters worked for nine hours to control a six-alarm fire that destroyed a historic hotel in Punxsutawney, PA, on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. As fire conditions...
Engine Rescue With Digital PanelKME has introduced the KME Engine Rescue, featuring a compact, all-digital pump-panel display. For simplified pump operations and maintenance, ...
A successful response to this question can be reviewed as having three distinct parts: staffing, response time and resources (i.e., apparatus). Resources, in the form of apparatus...
SUBJECT: Seatbelt Restraint Systems – Part 1TOPIC: Seatbelt PretensionersOBJECTIVE: Given a late-model vehicle, the rescuer will be able to identify the seatbelts with pretensioner...
NORTH ADAMS, MA: JULY 2, 1912 – A disastrous fire tore through the business district, causing an estimated $800,000 in damage. The blaze broke out in the kitchen of Wilson’s Hotel...
Industry Veteran Joins Firehouse Greg Toritto has been named group publisher of Firehouse Magazine and Firehouse.com. Toritto, who has been involved in the fire service industry...
Take This Survey and Save a Life (Maybe Your Own)!Members of the fire and emergency services regularly respond to traumatic events and face a variety of daily stressors that can...
Routine maintenance ensures that a thermal imager performs when needed and enjoy a long and fruitful service life. This column focuses on two areas in caring for your thermal ...
As part of an ongoing, multi-faceted effort to present the best training and education at our conferences, I recently attended meetings in California of San Diego-area and Los...
FREEPORT, NY, FEB. 1, 2012 – Two workers were removing a fuel tank when an explosion took place, severely burning them. The Freeport Fire Department responded to a report of multiple...
E-ONE has appointed Kent Tyler president and CEO. Tyler replaces Peter Guile, who was appointed CEO of Allied Specialty Vehicles (ASV), the parent company of E-ONE, in January...
According to a U.S. Fire Department Profile Report published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) in 2010, the U.S. is protected by 30,125 organized fire departments...
