February 2023

Richard Kesler and Daniel Madrzykowski tell how testing of SCBA facepieces showed that compliance to 2013 and newer editions of NFPA 1981 ensures the greatest safety to firefighters...

Mike Novak explains what might elude many in the fire service: A lack of good written and oral English skills can interfere with achieving optimal results.

Michael Daley urges that chiefs, officers and administrators join firefighters in training and preparation for what they will encounter in contemporary residential and commercial...

Dr. Derrick Edwards explains how departments that are deterred over concerns about expense, a lack of department resources, complexity and the need to hire a person on-staff can...

Richard Bossert explains why a patient's "chest pain" must be considered a worst-case scenario initially.

The 2023 Station Design Conference will provide educational opportunities in blueprint reading, prototype fire stations, "free" land and the latest in apparatus bay technology...

Hot Shots includes a triennial FAA-required exercise at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.

Brandon Fletcher believes unpaid departments can't play the "we're just volunteers" card to relieve themselves of the responsibility to consider anything that might affect their...

Dave McGlynn warns chief officers, company officers and training officers to beware of the detriment to the firehouse that manipulativeness, narcissism and egomania might be creating...

John J. Salka Jr. is forceful in his instruction to all fire departments that it should be policy that a search team be designated at every structural fire.

John Oates keys on four fire operations for which the utilization of measurements and statistics shouldn't be discounted.