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    • January 2019

    The January issue of Firehouse includes feature stories on Incident Command & Size-Up, Company Officer Expectations, and Fire & Emergency Apparatus. This issue also includes a special Firehouse supplement, SMARTER: Advancing Health-Related Technology.

    More content from January 2019

    Shane Ray
    Shane Ray explains how labels and biases can polarize our politics at all levels of government.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Smarter Jan19 1
    The special supplement shares how the SMARTER project seeks to develop and advance technologies in key areas of health and safety.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Peter Matthews
    Peter Matthews offers ideas for starting the New Year on the right foot.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Photo by Keith D. Cullom
    Malibu, CA, Nov. 9, 2018
    Firehouse presents recent fires from around the country.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Photo by Aaron Zamzow
    Consistent workouts that incorporate mobility, core strength and cardiovascular exercises can reduce the chances of injury and help maintain a healthy weight, and the endorphins released can rid the body of toxins and help manage stress.
    Aaron Zamzow offers six ideas for being the change you want to see in the fire service as it relates to firefighter health.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Cathy (center) had many supporters during her cancer journey, including Kyrene Resel (left) and Megan Frye, both volunteer members at the Purcellville Fire Station where Cathy was assigned.
    Loudoun County, VA, Firefighter-Technician Cathy McCray's colleagues and family members share the effects of her cancer diagnosis.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Photo by Glenn Duda
    The IC should be removed from the incident, as far as practical but close enough to sense the scene and consider the need for their aide to act as a runner if needed.
    Chris DelBello offers tips and tools for assuming a formal command.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Photo by Susan Deloach Photography
    Education involves not just teaching the process of combustion, but rather instructing it in a manner where the student can smell the smoke. Because they can see and feel such an event happening to them, the chances increase that they will make changes to behaviors.
    Dan Byrne explains that teaching transfers information, but educating changes behaviors.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Photo courtesy of Glick Fire Equipment Company
    The department’s apparatus committee should plan for two days to conduct a final inspection on the new apparatus to include both static and operational testing.
    Tom Shand and Mike Wilbur explain what department fleet managers need to know about apparatus delivery time frames.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Curt Varone
    Curt Varone explains what constitutes job-related questions an employer can ask and an employee must answer.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    David Griffin
    David Griffin explains why self-reflection is a key way to identify growth—or lack thereof.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Barry Fureyv2
    In Part 2 of his two-part series on dispatchers, Barry Furey shares dispatchers' concerns, lessons and what they need to ease the job.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Gary Ludwig
    Gary Ludwig offers a warning about the new street drug wave, Flakka, which is highly addictive and causes erratic behavior.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Experiments were conducted with c-Air during several structural burns with the objective of monitoring particulate matter distribution and morphology during an extended post-suppression period.
    Yichen Wu, Maxim Batalin and Aydogan Ozcan explain how c-Air shows elevated particulates in air during test overhaul operations.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Ron Moore
    A ratchet unit with 2-inch-wide webbing is placed in a test bed and prepared for the Standard Hand Force test. Photos by Ron Moore
    Ron Moore reviews vehicle rescue ratchet straps and determines the minimum breaking strength rating of the webbing and the working load limit for the entire assembly.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Al Hasenfratz, 2018 EVT of the Year
    Al Hasenfratz has been named 2018 Emergency Vehicle Technician of the Year by Firehouse.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Jarrod Sergi
    Jarrod Sergi offers important expectations that company officers should set for their crews to help encourage a strong working unit.
    Sept. 9, 2018