Features
- Assessing Rural Water Supply: A Geospatial Approach
  Access to dependable water supply suffic-ient to achieve needed fire flows (NFF) is critical for any fire department, but for rural departments, this can pose special challenges.
- 14-Alarm Warehouse Fire Strikes Urban Neighborhood
  On June 9, 2011, the Camden City (NJ) Fire Department (CFD) experienced a fire that taxed the resources of the city and three surrounding counties.
- Aerial Device Training: Advancing in the Basics
  There are many methods for training firefighters on the uses and operations of tower ladders and aerial ladders.
- Responding to "Unknown" Emergencies
  Every day, firefighters across the United States respond to emergency and medical calls dispatched as an "unknown" emergency or medical call.
- What to Do When Things Go Wrong at the Pump
  The pump operator is such an important position on the fireground that many large urban fire departments make it a tested or promoted position.
- Vehicular LODDs: A Reassessment
  Three years ago, I took a critical look at vehicular line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) ("Sizing Up Vehicle-Related LODDs," Fire Engineering, June 2009, 93-96).
- Friction Loss Rules of Thumb
  In "Every Pump Operator's Basic Equation," (Fire Engineering, October 2012, 51-65), I explained how to properly achieve the discharge pressure for fire attack lines using the equation PDP = NP + FL + APP + ELEV.
- Performance Management: A Balanced Approach
  The fire service is constantly being chall-enged to change the way it operates when spending taxpayers' money.
- The First-Due Engineer
  The performance of the engineer, operator, chauffeur, driver, or whatever the position may be called in your department is crucial as far as success or failure on the fire scene.
Departments
- Editor's Opinion
  - The Company You Keep
    President George Washington stands today as arguably one of the most dignified and respected men of all time.
- Volunteers Corner
  - The Future of Leadership in the Volunteer Fire Service
    The fire service has continued to respond to more varied and complex emergencies.
- Training Notebook
  - Prep Your Apparatus as You Prep Your Firefighters
    If I were to read this to the firefighters in my company, I might as well be speaking a different language.
- Web Watch
  - (fireengineering.com)
    A topic that can cause huge legal concerns is driving fire apparatus.
- fireEMS
  - Sleep Deprivation in EMS
    There is no substitute for sleep. Like food, oxygen, and water, sleep is essential to maintain mental and physical well-being.
- Fire Focus
  - Detroit Multiple-Dwelling Fire
    The Detroit (MI) Fire Department quickly upgraded this single-company response because of the amount of smoke firefighters saw while responding.
- Extrication Tactics
  - What Is Really Our Biggest Challenge in Vehicle Rescue
    Most readers will probably attempt to answer the title's question
- News In Brief
  - DOT Alert warns of gas cylinder hazard in welding kits
    On December 20, 2012, the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued Safety Alert No. HC-2012-4 warning consumers considering the purchase of retail welding kits that the compressed gas cylinders in the kits are not authorized for use in the United States and do not meet U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) specification.
- Letters to the Editor
  - (February 2013)
    Christopher Chavez's "Wind-Driven Fires: Lessons Learned in Houston," (October 2012) was disturbing to me.
- Bruno "Unplugged"
  - Texas Bull's Eye
    I was in a recent conversation at a management conference with a group of firefighters and was asked, "What is the most critical thing a fire officer must do?"
- Apparatus Deliveries
  - APPARATUS DELIVERIES
    The Smyrna (TN) Fire Department purchased this MARION BODY WORKS mid-mount platform quint because of area growth which included multistoried hotels and a hospital.
- Products
  - PRODUCTS/SERVICES/MEDIA
    Coxreels®'s HP1125 have a proven operating pressure of up to 5,000 psi.
- Company/Association News
  - Company/Association News
    E-ONE announced that its 2013 EPA compliant engines are now available for order.
- Names in the News
  - Names in the News
    JACK PELTIER died on December 9, 2012. A 60-year fire service veteran, Peltier was retired as an assistant chief of the Marlborough (MA) Fire Department.
- On Fire
  - Grab the What?
    Prior to the start of the tour, most firefighters are performing daily maintenance checks and inventory of the apparatus compartments.