During a mass casualty event, emergency response personnel depend on reliable equipment to help them control hazardous conditions.

Twenty-eight cadets this past week participated in a six-day long camp at the New Hampshire Fire Academy in Concord.

Scientists at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will host a public demonstration of a device aimed at locating first responders lost or trapped in a burning building

The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) has installed Chief Hank Clemmensen, fire chief of the Palatine Rural Fire Protection District of Inverness (IL) as IAFC president and chairman of the board for 2012-2013.

Medical Data Carrier IM Inc. and Ferno-Washington Inc. have concluded an agreement to create an exclusive Ferno branded Medical Data Carrier kit to be distributed by Ferno to 110 countries.

Kayla Harrison, who became America's first Olympic gold medalist in judo, plans to become a firefighter.

In a new report, Dr. Cortez Lawrence of the United States Fire Administration (USFA) provides insight into the challenges and needs of local fire and EMS agencies as they responded to the April 2011 tornados in the southeastern United States.

Battalion Chief Timothy Hanlon, Lieutenant John Maes, Firefighters Josh Hamilton, Josh Deuto, John Brereton and Mark Maxwell of the North Metro (CO) Fire Rescue District are the heroic recipients of the 2012 International Benjamin Franklin Fire Service Award for Valor.

Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI), a leading provider of innovative, mission-critical communications, has launched a new accountability solution for its award-winning APX™ Project 25 (P25) two-way radios.

Fitch & Associates announced that it has named Norris W. Croom III as the winner of the Pinnacle Emerging Leadership Award.

The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), in partnership with the DHS Office of Health Affairs (OHA) and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), has developed an innovative online educational outreach program and focused Web site for physician medical directors of local departments and agencies who are involved in emergency medical services (EMS) response.

I really should have titled this month's column "Before You Send the Workers to School, You Should Train the Boss." I have been describing in my past couple of columns my experience in adding a customer service element to our traditional tactical (mostly firefighting) approach.

California-based Firstwatch Gear is poised to introduce its lineup of innovative marine safety and flotation garments to the US market with the help of a well-respected team of veteran sales and design professionals.

A volunteer firefighter on Long Island, New York, is fighting for his life against a flesh-eating bacteria.

Author Rachel Hennick will be signing her new book Ghetto Medic, a Father in the 'Hood, at the Fire Museum of Maryland, 11 to 2 p.m. on August 4th with her father, a retired Baltimore City firefighter and paramedic who served during the Civil Rights Era.

The ambulance segment was relocated from Indiana and Michigan last summer in a consolidation with the existing fire truck manufacturing plant in Bradenton.

Brave. Dedicated. Willing. Reliable. These words describe 78,000 licensed or certified EMS providers in California. They demonstrate these qualities every day by coming to the aid of others when they are most in need and striving to ensure that the EMS system works well. But each year, due to circumstance or extraordinary effort, certain individuals among us shine.

The Medtronic Foundation has awarded $3.75 million in grants to two new partners -- the Illinois HeartRescue Collaborative through the University of Illinois and American Medical Response (AMR) -- to improve sudden cardiac arrest survival rates in Illinois and in select communities served by AMR in the next five years.

The National EMS Management Association (NEMSMA) released two new position statements at its annual meeting held at the Pinnacle Conference in Colorado Springs (CO).

There is no more chilling radio transmission than a civilian on a department radio that a member is down. This week's featured firefighter near-miss report reinforces the lesson that our medical training is as useful for saving colleagues as it is for saving civilians.