Whether you are a member of a hazardous materials response team or a first responder, decontamination is one of the most important actions taken by emergency personnel during...
A legal battle is underway over Washington, DC’s effort to ban railroad shipments of hazardous materials within two miles of the U.S. Capitol. It has become a test case that ...
This month, you will read an account of a fire that occurred at a single-family dwelling. It came in as a mattress fire, but when firefighters arrived, they had a house fire....
I was a firefighter with the City of New Haven, CT, from 1987 to 2004. I had been a captain since 1998 and was assigned to Engine Company 17 on the day of this fire. At 2:32 ...
I had the opportunity to attend a life-saving ceremony about 15 years ago. The EMS service involved was featuring and touting its EMTs and paramedics as walking messiahs who ...
June 1, 1905: NEW YORK CITY – Just before 3 o’clock in the afternoon, a man rushed into the workhouse of the city prison on Blackwell Island (now known as Roosevelt Island), ...
Goleta, CA, April 6, 2005 – Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to the Engineering Building on the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus after a gas-detection...
Adequate staffing has long been a fire service concern. Whether it involves the number of career firefighters assigned to ladder and engine companies, or the ability of suburban...
In 1999, the Thorn Township Fire Department, in Thornville, OH (population 3,500), purchased a thermal imager (TI) with money donated largely from local fundraising. Last fall...
June 1, 2005
Courtesy of Woodinville, WA, Fire and Life Safety District
Question: While there is always so much discussion in the business community about customer service, why is it also so important for a public service such as a fire department...
The Greensboro, NC, Fire Department, in collaboration with the Greensboro Transit Authority (GTA), has “wrapped” a GTA city bus as part of a new initiative aimed at educating...
Interoperability and technology solutions in general have inundated the public safety market. With so many solutions available, there must be some easy method to help guide first...
You never know where a simple telephone call may lead. In February 2004, I received a very interesting and, at the time, somewhat vague call. As I answered the telephone with...
America is known as the land of opportunity. Each year, many young men and women work hard for a chance to become an emergency responder. Frequently, this conscious choice represents...
I seem to talk about the line-of-duty deaths of firefighters in so many of my editorials each year. I have seen a lot of death on the fireground and so have too many firefighters...
