"That's it; I'm dead. They are going to find my body under this window and my son will grow up never knowing his father."
The introduction of the incident command system (ICS) has led to fireground operations that are more efficiently managed.
Silence often hides the very issue one must confront.
Today's firefighter needs to better understand the correlation between physical fitness and improved job performance.
Several years ago, the fire service made efforts to get "back to basics." For years, we were exhorted to think outside the box and to be innovative.
Over the past few years, there has been a positive trend in firefighter training; firefighter awareness; and instructors' writing, teaching, and preaching toward firefighter fitness.
Eventually, if we are fortunate, each of us will reach the point in our career when we can start to consider the option of retirement.
If you are the type of person who can work on your laptop, listen to music on your portable music player, talk on your cell phone, and text message at the same time (maybe all while driving), this article is for you.
THE Lockport Township (IL) Fire District began its aircraft rescue firefighting (ARFF) program in 2006 as a result of assuming fire protection for the general aviation Lewis-Lockport Airport (KLOT) from the Romeoville (IL) Fire Department in 2003.
They say there are two sides to every issue and that every good deed has potentially disastrous results.
An increase in training requirements has placed a large burden on volunteer departments.
A measurement of how well your crew performs fundamental fireground skills is whether or not they have to think of the steps to accomplish basic tasks-in other words, are they unconsciously competent?
Firefighting is a dirty job! We all would admit that. One of my earliest recollections of my father was the way he would smell when he came home from the fire station in the morning-that sweet smell of smoke on the extra set of clothes.
Fire-based emergency medical service (EMS) departments in the United States continue to face annual increases in medical calls that exceed the capability of strategic plans developed five to seven years ago.
Occasionally, vehicles involved in motor vehicle accidents come to rest upside down in ditches.
Building on an existing research project in which the components of a national firefighter nonfatal injury data system and tools to improve on-the-job safety for firefighters have been developed, Drexel University is now undertaking a new project to create a survey that will measure the safety climate of a fire department-the organization's attitudes toward safe behavior, or a "culture of safety."
Like many of you, I am sick and tired of reading opinion after opinion on the "obesity epidemic" the fire service is facing.
We have been discussing how we describe the word "nice" when we talk about delivering positive customer service.
Scenario: At 6 a.m. the Chicago (IL) Fire Department (CFD) responded to a reported fire in a Home Depot.
The smoldering fumes of a recently doused fire can be filled with dangerous and toxic gases and vapors that threaten the life and health of firefighters involved in the fire overhaul operations.
The Valley Forge Fire Company (VFFC), Schuylkill Township, Pennsylvania, has hydrants in less than half of its first-run district.
Dana Commercial Vehicle's SPICER® D2000 HEAVY-DUTY STEER AXLES provide proven reliability and durability when vehicle performance is critical.
ALLEGRO INDUSTRIES unveiled a new 50,000 square-foot facility in South Carolina and a new catalog and Web site featuring their expanded product offering.
Walking into the firehouse and seeing the spare apparatus in the bay, I knew that my tour was already off to a bad start.
