Training Magazine Articles

  • From The Officer’s Seat: Training Techniques

    John G. Riker outlines a strategic approach designed to assist the instructor in the delivery of fire training.

    Article • February 28th, 2002

  • The Street Chemist - Part 5

    Elements bond together ionically or covalently to form compounds. Compounds can be organized into families, which have similar characteristics and hazards.

    Article • February 26th, 2002

  • The Street Chemist - Part 4

    The first two installments of The Street Chemist dealt with the atom, the basic building block of our World.

    Article • February 25th, 2002

  • Finding a 'Hidden' Fire

    Elements bond together ionically or covalently to form compounds. Compounds can be organized into families, which have similar characteristics and hazards.

    Article • February 22nd, 2002

  • Non-Punative Close-Call Reporting

    From 2002 Fire Rescue West Speaker Gordon J. Graham, Learning from the Mistakes of Others Prior to Disaster.

    Article • February 21st, 2002

  • Radiological Terrorism: Are we prepared?

    Over the past five years, first responders have received training in how to manage terrorist events involving the use of weapons that distribute deadly chemical agents.

    Article • February 1st, 2002

  • “Vision 2002 – For Firefighters By Firefighters”

    Dave Jacobs previews the third annual training conference focusing on firefighter safety and survival.

    Article • January 31st, 2002

  • Training For Successful Trench Rescues

    Michael Daley describe the ways in which rescuers can train to respond successfully to these emergencies.Today's fire-rescue service must be prepared for all types of emergencies that can arise in the communities they protect. As areas become more...

    Article • January 31st, 2002

  • Simulations

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

    Article • January 31st, 2002

  • Chronicle Of An Announced Tragedy

    Lima, the City of the three Wise Men, consists of multi-ethnoses and we have inherited from the colony traditions such as the passion for the artificial fireworks.

    Article • January 29th, 2002

  • Multiple Victims Complicate Md. Blaze

    Enormous challenge when an early morning house fire presented them with nine victims, four of them in cardiac arrest.

    Article • January 11th, 2002

  • N.M. Tech Trains Firefighters

    The snow is pocked with tiny furrows of blast powder. A piece of 2-inch galvanized pipe is on the ground, one end blown open. A short distance away lie a pulverized watermelon.

    Article • January 1st, 2002

  • The Street Chemist - Part 3

    The first two installments of The Street Chemist dealt with the atom, the basic building block of our World, as we know it and the Periodic Table and Elements, which make up everything on Earth.

    Article • December 9th, 2001

  • The Street Chemist - Part 2

    All things on earth are made up of the elements or combinations of elements found on the Periodic Table. The atom, which was discussed in the previous section, is the smallest form in which an element can exist.

    Article • November 9th, 2001

  • The Street Chemist - Part 1

    Most emergency responders cringe at the thought of chemistry. Nonetheless, knowledge of basic chemistry is necessary to deal effectively with hazardous materials in emergency response.

    Article • October 9th, 2001