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Tactical Safety for Firefighters: Coupling CouplingFirefighters live with the challenge of hose couplings every day, but we should take comfort in knowing that they are a silent sentinel leading the way, Ray McCormack writes. |
Tactical Safety: Marginal Effort Equals Marginal ResultsTactical safety is achieved by putting forth maximum effort and by having highly tuned-in firefighters and commanders who deploy their troops with purpose on the fireground, Ray McCormack writes. |
House Fire Roof Vent Helmet Cam - Training Tips
The Traditions Training group provides a video meant to provoke positive discussion about tactics and duties of a fir...
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Tactical Safety for Firefighters: Coupling Coupling
Firefighters live with the challenge of hose couplings every day, but we should take comfort in knowing that they are...
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Inside a Budget Fight: It Never Ends, and Nobody Wins
What does it take to save an engine company slated to close because of a proposed budget cut? Scott Joerger concludes...
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Largest Order in Rosenbauer History
Rosenbauer has won an order from the Saudi Arabian Ministry of the Interior to supply fire engineering equipment wort...
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Smooth Bore vs. Combination...and the Beat Goes On
One of the most “passionate” topics in the fire service is which nozzle works best, a smooth bore tip or a combinatio...
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Recognizing the Suburban/Urban InterfaceAs communities move from semi-rural suburbia to urban, firefighters may experience not only an increased volume of incidents, but a widening variety of problems to mitigate, Dave DeStefano writes. |
Fireground Search: How Do you Know?Firefighters should not abandon aggressive tactics to rescue potential victims on the fireground, Jerry Knapp writes, but there are strategies that can be used to help minimize the risk responders are exposed to at emergency incidents. |
Sizing Up the Situation Before ArrivalHaving advance knowledge of the fireground can help firefighters perform some size-up before they even arrive on scene. Dan Sheridan writes about two incidents where having prior knowledge helped firefighting operations. |
From the Jumpseat: The Safety/Identity ConflictDo the stories that make up how firefighters think of themselves actually make it more difficult for them to operate safely on the fireground? Mark J. Cotter reviews a scientific study that says yes. |
Dunn's Dispatch: Rekindle Fires
Preventing a rekindle is a team responsibility. Vincent Dunn discusses the implications of a rekindle and the importance of overhaul operations.
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House Fire Roof Vent Helmet Cam - Training TipsThe Traditions Training group provides a video meant to provoke positive discussion about tactics and duties of a firefighter placed into a similar situation. |
CSB Statement on Four Year Anniversary of the Catastrophic Imperial Sugar ExplosionTuesday, February 7, 2012, marks the fourth anniversary of the massive sugar dust explosion that killed 14 workers and injured 38 others at the Imperial Sugar Refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia. The loss of life continues to be mourned in the community. |
Rapid Intervention Basics for FirefightersJeff Schwering offers a reminder about the many elements for which the rapid intervention team (RIT) is responsible and issues a call for a return to the basics |
Bodies Recovered Five Days After TX FireThe bodies of two non-residents were recovered Monday from the rubble of a Harris County (TX) apartment complex that had burned five days earlier, prompting questions about the thoroughness of the fire response from relatives of the victims. |
Study Points to Future Wildfire Danger in Western United StatesRecent scientific research points out the possibility of dangerous future wildland fire activity in the Western United States. |
CSB Chairman: Nine Years After Corbin (KY) Explosion, Still No Dust RegulationsOn Feb. 20, 2003, powerful dust explosions tore through the CTA Acoustics plant in Corbin, Kentucky, where fiberglass insulation was manufactured for the automotive industry, killing seven and injuring many more. Nine years after the CTA catastrophe, there is still no comprehensive OSHA standard to prevent these accidents. |
Dallas Fire Rescue Probes Response to Fatal Fire
February 22, 2012
Dallas (TX) Fire Rescue is investigating the response to a fire that killed a disabled man Sunday afternoon. |
