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Featured Content 2008 pg. 7

• Dunn's Dispatch: Stopping Fire Spread
  Fire officers must know the basic construction types and understand the various ways flames can spread throughout each type of burning building.
• International Fire Safety Legislation: An Overview
  George H. Potter takes a look at the various agencies and standards-generating organizations that try to maintain fire safety around the world.
• Roof Simulator
  Fire departments of all sizes face the constant challenge of conducting realistic training on vertical ventilation techniques. David DeStefano has devised an easy roof prop you can create to fill this training need.
• Fire Commentary: Don't Overthink Accountability
  Finding a correct system to montior personnel accountability in your department requires research, but overcomplicating things can prove deadly, Tino Yaccich argues.
• From the Jumpseat: Constructive Pessimism
  It's easy for firefighters to become complacent about our need to study and train, but mentally preplanning for the worst-possible scenario can help us focus our efforts.
• Fire Commentary: Good Intentions Send Wrong Message
  Jerry Holt argues that, when it comes to apparatus crashes, drivers should be held responsible for their reckless actions.
• June Roundtable: Safety Officer
  Some departments have full-time trained safety officers who respond to fires. Other departments don't have that luxury. How is the safety officer position filled in your department at a working fire? E-mail us your answers for magazine consideration.
• Necessary, Dangerous, or Both: Live Fire Training in Acquired Structures
  While filming with the Guilford (CT) Fire Department, Frank Ricci and Jim Duffy learned of a simple control measure to make live-fire training in acquired structures a little bit safer.
• Training Days: Starting a Fire
  Recently appointed training coordinator Tom Kiurski walks us through his first day training firefighters in his department with a back-to-basics drill.
• Drafting Confidence
  Drafting failures are usually the result of operator error, because of a lack of proficiency, but confidence is easily attained with training. Jeff Welle reviews the main tactical considerations that impact drafting operations.

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