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    Mike Lombardo explains the challenges with providing accurate and clear communications on the fireground.
    March 1, 2015
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    Issues that play a role in how, where and why firefighters die
    March 1, 2015
    NORTH WHIDBEY FIRE AND RESCUE has taken delivery of two Midwest Fire All-Poly PT2 2500 tanker-pumpers
    New Fire Apparatus Deliveries
    March 1, 2015
    Photo by Don Knoob/Courtesy of Richmond FD
    Firefighters and volunteers apply water to the buildings west of the State Theater to prevent spread farther to the east. All buildings on main between 5th and 6th avenues west of the theater were destroyed.
    Firefighter: “It just looked like the picture of the atomic bomb”
    March 1, 2015
    G Lucas
    Firefighter protective clothing is continually evolving
    March 1, 2015
    Photo by Nik Knauer
    Nic Knauer 141018 8th Oley 13 LG 54cfcc5202149
    Millions of dollars in damage to five-story structure and contents
    March 1, 2015
    John Hays 54d505e85b9fc
    John Hays explains how proper thermal imaging camera usage makes salvage and overhaul operations more effective.
    March 1, 2015
    Gary Ludwig 54d505ad85632
    Your training does not stop when your shift ends
    March 1, 2015
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    Josh Waldo offers four tips to establish successful year-round fire prevention efforts.
    March 1, 2015
    Photos by Tom Shand
    Wagon 5 from the South End Fire Company in Winchester, VA, is equipped with a 750-gallon water tank. Note the use of a combination of folding and fixed step surfaces to gain access to the hosebed area.
    Tom Shand and Michael Wilbur look at two case studies where newly delivered units were too heavy or too small.
    March 1, 2015
    Photos by Mike Daley
    What is available in your cache to remove a victim? In this case, the litter on the left is a confined-space litter; it is only 17 inches wide at the widest point. This is the preferred litter for manipulating through tight entry portals.
    Building practical and efficient rope rescue systems
    March 1, 2015
    Photo from Paul Hashagen Collection
    NEW YORK CITY: MARCH 8, 1915 – FDNY Rescue Company 1, composed of eight firemen, a lieutenant and captain, was assigned a rebuilt 1914 Cadillac touring car (in photo) outfitted with smoke helmets, cutting torches, jacks, resuscitators and hand-tools.
    Fires From 100 Years Ago
    March 1, 2015
    Photo courtesy SMDI
    The SMDI honored Ron Moore and Elizabeth Krear with its inaugural “Men and Women of Steel” awards.
    SMDI Honors Moore, Krear
    March 1, 2015
    Photo courtesy of Elbit
    Elbit Systems has been awarded an approximately $100 million contract from the Israeli Ministry of Defense to procure six new firefighting aircraft.
    Elbit Procures $100 Million Deal with IMOD
    March 1, 2015
    Shane Ray
    Why do we continue to wait for a tragedy to take action?
    March 1, 2015
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    Initiative #13: Helping firefighters deal with the stress of routine and extraordinary events
    March 1, 2015
    Photo by Tom McDonald
    HOUSTON, TX, JAN. 15, 2015
    Recent fires from around the country
    March 1, 2015
    Marc S Bashoor 547cc42463fcf 54d501c33b556
    Your grandfather’s fire department probably got it right
    March 1, 2015
    Photo by Michael Schwartzberg
    Volunteer and career firefighters work side by side at a three-alarm fire in Baltimore County, MD.
    The fifth annual Combination Fire Department Run Survey features statistics on apparatus, budgets, membership and 2014 fire and EMS calls.
    March 1, 2015
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    Streamlight has launched the rechargeable Stinger HPL and Strion HPL (High Performance Lumen) lights, new high lumen, long-range lights with an ultra-bright hotspot for illuminating...
    Jan. 23, 2015
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    The K55 incorporates FLIR’s revolutionary Flexible Scene Enhancement (FSX) technology which produces ultra-crisp thermal imagery and is also equipped with on-board video recording...
    Jan. 23, 2015
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    Rigaku Raman Technologies, a leading pioneer of handheld and portable Raman spectrometers, has introduced Progeny ResQ, the new generation in handheld chemical detection.
    Jan. 23, 2015