"HazMat 17. Show this unit responding to the confined space rescue." Captain Jeff Strickland, officer-in-charge of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Technical Rescue Bureau, overheard ...
If there was a significant fire or emergency that occurred 100 years ago in your department, or your department's 100th anniversary is coming up, please drop us a line for possible...
"Put the wet stuff on the red stuff." That's the bottom line, whether it's a church fire in Wisconsin or the towering inferno, like the recent eight-alarm fire in Baltimore that...
New Jersey is called, "The Garden State." It is the most densely populated state in the country with over 1,000 people per square mile. Many who travel through the northeast portion...
Over the past three decades, a real problem has developed in many of the urban areas throughout North America. Many large-loss fires have occurred because of inadequate staffing...
Plastics have been around for more than 100 years. The first plastic developed was cellulose nitrate, which was a replacement for ivory in billiard balls. Since World War II, ...
This is the final installment of a series on buying insurance for fire apparatus and other emergency vehicles. The previous installments covered topics that included "totaling...
Do you bill for your EMS transport services? Not all fire departments seek reimbursement. Some departments do no billing whatsoever. Some bill everyone. Some bill only non-residents...
Automatic sprinkler systems have been used in this country for almost 125 years, but there still is a cloud of mythology that hampers fire departments in their efforts to protect...
Everyday contaminants are on the surfaces that we touch and in the air we breathe. Brian L. Parsley discusses different types of atmospheric monitors and how they can be of benefit...