As you may or may not be aware, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has been hard at work over the last several years developing a standard for thermal imagers. While...
This month's column provides updates on legal matters involving firefighters and fire departments in four cities. Three cases involve allegations of discrimination and one centers...
SUBJECT: Electric Vehicles TOPIC: Part 1 — 2011 Chevrolet VOLT OBJECTIVE: Given a potential scenario involving a 2011 Chevrolet VOLT, the emergency responder team will be able...
Reports continue to stream in from all over the United States and Canada of metropolitan areas and smaller communities that have transitioned or are beginning to change over to...
Unless this is your first time reading this column, you are pretty much aware that we feel that among the best ways to minimize injury and death to firefighters is through a system...
Fireground size-up factors can have varying degrees of impact on a fire. Life safety is always the most important, but achieving all of our incident priorities is highly dependent...
One of the most difficult personnel issues is how to stop members from falling into the "apathy trap" once they decide they don't care about the agency any longer. When a member...
The idea for this column (with an apology to the Beatles) came to me as I was preparing for a doctoral-level course in leadership I was facilitating for Capella University in ...
APPLICATIONS OF FIRE RESEARCH If Adam Wheeler had attended Paul Antonellis' class concerning Applications of Fire Research, the former Harvard student might not be embroiled in...
On June 11, 2009, a three-alarm fire destroyed a five-story warehouse in Butte, MT. The 45-by-100-foot structure was built in 1902 of Type IV heavy timber construction by Armour...
Multiple firefighter fatalities at large commercial fires attract the attention and scrutiny they warrant. However, the fire service must also recognize that most line-of-duty...
Designing an apparatus to respond to technical rescue incidents is no easy task. Making the proper decisions for the needs of the apparatus is time consuming and costly. So too...
RECENTLY IN CHICAGO, Mayor Richard Daley selected First Deputy Fire Commissioner Robert Hoff, 54, to be the commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department. The appointment of Hoff...
