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    As you can see from this month’s cover, a firefighter had a very close call in Fort Worth, TX. See pages 50-51. This is one of several recent fires around the nation that involved...
    Feb. 1, 2004
    Feb. 1, 1904: BROOKLYN, NY – A fire that actually started the day before took the lives of three FDNY firemen as an extremely smoky fire broke out in a three-story storage building...
    Feb. 1, 2004
    The Los Angeles Fire Department is a full-spectrum life safety agency protecting approximately 4 million people who live and work in America’s second-largest city. The LAFD’s ...
    Feb. 1, 2004
    John Caufield reports on a fire that became one of the largest incidents in the history of the Rochester Fire Department, challenging its resources, command structure and pre-...
    Feb. 1, 2004
    Harvey Eisner interviews a Fort Worth, TX, firefighter who experienced difficulties such as poor visibility, high heat and poor air supply in a narrow escape.
    Feb. 1, 2004
    Todd Harms provides insight into the Phoenix Fire Department’s training program incorporating the “75%/25%” concept – 75% on staying out of trouble and 25% on getting out of trouble...
    Feb. 1, 2004
    Jim McCormack reviews rapid intervention teams and focuses on prevention so that the teams are not needed.
    Feb. 1, 2004
    Tom Shand and Michael Wilbur advise seeking the expertise of an apparatus architect for the first-time aerial apparatus purchaser.
    Feb. 1, 2004
    Ray Chaney shares some tools for your toolbag in respect to wildland firefighting with aircraft.
    Feb. 1, 2004
    Rod Hammer discusses how increasing muscular fitness will allow you to perform fire suppression activities better and reduce on-the-job injuries.
    Feb. 1, 2004
    As the 108th Congress begins its second session, a lobbying campaign is underway to rally support for the Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act, which would provide a federal tax break...
    Feb. 1, 2004
    By request of the author, this article is not available online
    Feb. 1, 2004
    Phil, a West Coast paramedic/ firefighter working in a medium-sized fire department, spent seven years rotating between the engine and the ambulance, working mostly on the ambulance...
    Feb. 1, 2004