Firefighter Safety Magazine Articles

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  • Firefighters Need to Know

    History of buildings like the Sofa Super Store has shown that enclosed structures are highly prone to producing multiple life threatening hazards.

    Article • May 19th, 2008

  • Safety 101 - Lesson 22

    If firefighter are not rehabilitated, the probability for ineffective performance, mistakes, accidents, injury, and even death escalate.

    Article • May 9th, 2008

  • Double Crash on the Highway

    This month's column draws our attention to three specific areas: Safe driving, road conditions and challenges in controlling the vehicle The seatbelt issue Protecting our personnel while operating on roadways Instead of digging too...

    Article • May 1st, 2008

  • Saving Our Own: Fatal Assumptions
    Saving Our Own: Fatal Assumptions

    This article examines three common assumptions that are made by members of fire service and airline industry that can prove to be fatal.

    Article • April 25th, 2008

  • Rapid Intervention: A Better Way

    This article looks at one the roles of a four-person engine company assigned as the Rapid Intervention Company for a dwelling fire.

    Article • April 16th, 2008

  • "Mayday!" Made Simple

    Larry Patin and Jonathan Riffe explain why changing the culture of the fire service, individual stations and departments is necessary in "Mayday!" situations.

    Article • April 1st, 2008

  • Gas Leak & Explosion!

    "I Suddenly Felt Myself Levitate and I Was Flying Through the Air" 

    Article • April 1st, 2008

  • Safety 101 - Lesson 21

    Training must involve not only how to operate the components of the vehicle, but to know the physical characteristics of the vehicle.For many departments, the arrival of a new piece of fire apparatus is a time of celebration, a time to transfer...

    Article • March 17th, 2008

  • What's it Going to Take?
    What's it Going to Take?

    The Underwriters Laboratory (UL) is involved in further evaluating the performance of the lightweight wood trusses under the fire conditions.

    Article • March 11th, 2008

  • Risk Management At the Company Level

    Quinn MacLeod contends that while firefighting is more hazardous than ever, risk-management protocols have been slow to evolve to make it safer.

    Article • February 29th, 2008

  • Not for a Piece of Property
    Not for a Piece of Property

    For safety, the time has now come for firefighters to manage floors over basements in the same manner they manage attic spaces.The United States Fire Administration National Fire Data Center reports that "for a ten year period, 1997-2006, 23.5% of...

    Article • February 14th, 2008

  • Safety 101 - Lesson 20

    The real "trick" to managing safety behavior is to change the mindset and culture of all personnel to not behave in unsafe or inappropriate ways.

    Article • February 7th, 2008

  • High-Energy Windows Can Be Deadly

    By request of the author, this article is not available online.

    Article • January 31st, 2008

  • Don't Let the People In Your Wallet Read This

    This month, we have a unique first-hand view at a horribly tragic line-of-duty death; not a close call , but a death . And since the circumstances of every firefighter fatality have, at some point, been replicated as close calls, we believe that you...

    Article • January 31st, 2008

  • Rapid Intervention: The RIT Way

    The idea of having the RIT companies available to complete other tasks while on scene is both good and bad.Rapid intervention is a theory that is no longer a new one to those in the fire service. Rapid Intervention Teams, or RIT as we know it, has...

    Article • January 27th, 2008

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