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    • June 2023

    The June issue of Firehouse Magazine includes feature articles on diversity and inclusion, apparatus refurbishment, and aerial ladder placement. Plus, the results of our "Diversity in the Fire Service" survey and a look ahead to the new HOT Sessions at Firehouse Expo.

    More content from June 2023

    Photo courtesy of SVI Refurb
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    Jeffrey D. Gaskin provides a checklist to guide a department for a decision on whether a refurbishment of a fire apparatus makes sense.
    June 5, 2023
    Kanen Blackwell shares his experience in transferring to a new department and what does and doesn't work for the person and for the organization.
    June 5, 2023
    Dana Harrison boils down to the basics of how members can evolve their diet so that their digestive system can work to improve their overall health.
    June 5, 2023
    Robert Policht provides instruction regarding how to position an aerial ladder and aerial bucket for rescue, ventilation, master streams, ingress/egress and special situations...
    June 5, 2023
    Brandon Heggie provides the critical methods that responders must employ when they encounter patients who are overwhelmed when the thermometer reaches its highest points.
    June 5, 2023
    Justin Rodino explains why firefighters benefit from learning which of the buildings in their response area have fire-rated walls, smoke curtains, fire doors, smoke dampers, smoke...
    June 5, 2023
    Dr. David Griffin explains how the former fire chief of the Charleston, SC, Fire Department shaped his career and life and that of countless others in the department and in the...
    June 5, 2023
    John J. Salka Jr. urges members to consider risk as definitively as possible rather than based on feel.
    June 5, 2023
    Andrew Holter explains why a department's mission statement and its core values lead to inclusion—if they are created correctly.
    June 5, 2023
    Michael Daley explains for urban and metropolitan departments how they must preplan and prepare differently for responses to fires in rural sections of their jurisdiction.
    June 5, 2023
    New Orleans Fire Department Engine 38 found a single-story occupied dwelling heavily involved, and the fire already had extended to the left to another single-story occupied dwelling...
    June 5, 2023
    Jeremy Urekew notes why training and standards are crucial to a department's decision on whether to purchase innovative rope rescue equipment or stick with what currently is employed...
    June 5, 2023