Dr. David Prezant, FDNY deputy chief medical officer, examines ways in which World Trade Center exposure interacts with the ability to improve personal protective equipment and...
After 9/11, the FDNY Counseling Unit recruited senior members of the department to provide information and educate firefighters about post-traumatic stress disorder.The FDNY Counseling...
Dr. Denis Onieal continues a series of articles on the need for professional status for the fire and emergency services through a common system of training and education.
Rod Hammer continues a series of articles on the impact and importance of the “firefighter fitness pentagon” in developing a fitness and wellness program.
In the two years since the 9/11 attacks, there has been a lot of turmoil and a small amount of progress in getting federal aid to local fire departments. Most of the effort has...
I spent the week of July 4 just north of Tucson, AZ. I was there to "observe" the operations at the Aspen Fire in the Catalina Mountain range, most notably Mount Lemmon. My host...
The thud you heard was the federal government program to vaccinate against smallpox coming to an abrupt halt. By the time of this writing, we should have been well into Phase ...
Question: How can a fire department leverage marketing to achieve its prevention goals within its community? Answer: Comprehensive fire and safety prevention - largely in the ...
In over a decade of writing this column for Firehouse® Magazine, this is the most difficult. It was so difficult that I did not have a title for it, and I had to keep writing ...