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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

    The special supplement shares how the SMARTER project seeks to develop and advance technologies in key areas of health and safety.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Dr. Mark Buller and Dr. Denise Smith address working with the military to develop a better means of measuring core temperature.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Loudoun County, VA, Firefighter-Technician Cathy McCray's colleagues and family members share the effects of her cancer diagnosis.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Chris DelBello offers tips and tools for assuming a formal command.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Shane Ray explains how labels and biases can polarize our politics at all levels of government.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Dan Byrne explains that teaching transfers information, but educating changes behaviors.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Tom Shand and Mike Wilbur explain what department fleet managers need to know about apparatus delivery time frames.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Curt Varone explains what constitutes job-related questions an employer can ask and an employee must answer.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    David Griffin explains why self-reflection is a key way to identify growth—or lack thereof.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    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 offers a warning about the new street drug wave, Flakka, which is highly addictive and causes erratic behavior.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Andrea Wilkinson and John Ames review the challenges associated with ECG monitoring—and what’s ahead.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Jeff King discusses how to use technology to identify a problem before it becomes an emergency, specifically related to physiological status monitoring.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Yichen Wu, Maxim Batalin and Aydogan Ozcan explain how c-Air shows elevated particulates in air during test overhaul operations.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    Al Hasenfratz has been named 2018 Emergency Vehicle Technician of the Year by Firehouse.
    Jan. 1, 2019
    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
    Jarrod Sergi offers important expectations that company officers should set for their crews to help encourage a strong working unit.
    Sept. 9, 2018