Hawaii County, sometimes referred to as the "Big Island," is the easternmost county in the State of Hawaii. It covers an area of 5,087 square miles, but is still growing because...
Whether you're a full-scale career agency or a tiny rural volunteer operation, fire departments have one thing in common when it comes to training: keeping up with the latest...
Last month, we opened the discussion on temperature sensing with your thermal imager. As a quick review, the actual name for temperature sensing is radiometry. Temperature sensing...
Every so often, I hear of or read a story that makes me wonder if it is true or not. The most recent of these was an article in the Cleveland, OH, newspaper,The Plain Dealer....
SUBJECT:Advanced SteelTOPIC: Extrication Challenges of Advanced Steel in Vehicles, Part 1 OBJECTIVE: Review the cutting capabilities of vehicle rescue tools including hand tools...
In recent years, there has been an escalation of responding fire apparatus crashing into each other and in the past few weeks it has gotten even worse. In this column, we have...
People a lot smarter than me will have to decide whether the stimulus packages being passed by Congress and signed by the President represent good public policy and make economic...
What is the "rural environment?" Many people have definitions for the term "rural," but seldom are these rural definitions in agreement. For some inhabitants, rural can't be defined...
On Sunday, May 25, 2008, at 4:59 P.M., Parkersburg, IA, a city of 1,889, was struck head on by an EF5 tornado. An EF5 tornado is the worst kind. A tornado of this magnitude generates...
Steve Meyer reports on an EF5 tornado in Parkersburg, IA, that left 290 of the community's 576 homes destroyed and another 120 damaged. Twenty-two businesses were destroyed; the...