While the topic of the need for having a will and estate plan is not directly related to the fire service, I believe it is an important message that every firefighter and emergency...
For the 20th year, the fire service takes to the pages of Firehouse® to share and compare statistics. Part 2 features busiest companies, battalion chiefs and stations, plus pay...
July 1901 - Large sections of the United States were suffering through extreme weather conditions. In the large cities people were dying by the hundreds from temperatures that...
The Fire Museum of Maryland plans a hot time for firefighters attending Firehouse Expo 2001 on Friday, July 27. With 40 pieces of fire apparatus and an exciting collection of ...
Three firefighters were killed and 50 other people, including firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians, were injured following a tremendous explosion in...
The latest update on the federal fire grant program indicates that 19,000 applications totaling some 30,538 requests and seeking $2.9 billion were received by the U.S. Fire Administrati...
The 2001 wildland and wildland/urban interface(W/UI) fire season began early this year with a large number of fire starts in Florida. As I began writing this short article, fires...
Over the past year or so, I have written a great deal about the concept of leadership. My research, as supplemented by interactions with many of my e-mail correspondents, has ...
Robert Hoff and Rick Kolomay show why, no matter how this profession changes technologically, firefighting will remain a dirty, hands-on occupation requiring training of the same...
Hazardous materials and terrorist incidents can occur anywhere at any time. Communities with chemical manufacturing plants can plan for incidents because of their known risk. ...
At the beginning of the Civil War, the average time a wounded soldier lay on a battlefield was three days after the battle. Just in time for the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest...
Opponents of the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) 1710 standard have not given up the fight and, if anything, are even more determined to do whatever it takes to ...
Ronald E. Moore introduces a series of training articles on the latest automotive technology by describing hybrid vehicles and explaining how they work.