Cassidian Communications, an EADS North America company,  has successfully upgraded the 911call processing solution at the York-Poquoson-Williamsburg Emergency Communications Center (ECC) and the James City County ECC in Virginia.

A man and two children died in a house fire early Wednesday morning in Kansas City, Missouri.

A southern Nevada firefighter who was fired a year ago for misusing sick-leave benefits must be reinstated to his former position, according to a report by an independent arbitrator.

A northern Colorado wildfire that has grown to an estimated 400 acres is now five percent contained.

A Massachusetts fire chief says three college students his firefighters had to rescue from the roof of a campus building are "idiots" for wasting his department’s time and money.

Gradall Industries is introducing the Strategic Emergency Response Vehicle [SERV] FA 50 firefighting device, designed to be mounted on a fire truck to dramatically increase firefighting efficiency and safety.

Natural gas leaks and explosions are growing problems across the country, James Kutz writes, and firefighters need to be on alert when responding to "nuisance" calls involving natural gas leaks.

An expert's review of reported Los Angeles (CA) Fire Department response times said the data is suspect because of problems with the software used to prepare the numbers.

A Miami-Dade (FL) fire captain who posted about the Trayvon Martin killing on Facebook was demoted to the rank of firefighter yesterday, according to news reports.

Glenn Corbett, John Jay College associate professor and Fire Engineering technical editor, has been named the Firefighter Christopher Santora Educational Scholarship Fund 2012 Man of the Year.

FDNY firefighters rescued a 12-year-old boy Saturday whose throat had been torn open by the family pit bull.

Fire stations across Los Angeles marked Fire Service Day by opening their doors to the public for tours, demonstrations and other family-friendly activities to increase awareness of services offered by the departments.

A man was killed and three others, including two children, were injured in an apartment fire in New Bedford (MA).

In support of local Fire, Rescue and Emergency Medical Services crews, Gershow Recycling opened its Huntington Station facility to the Cold Spring Harbor Fire Department for an extrication exercise they performed on May 8. Gershow donated two vehicles to the fire department.

A large fire has destroyed at least five businesses in Mariposa.

Three Oregon teens face charges of arson, reckless burning and reckless endangering after a four-alarm fire at Woodburn High School.

Hannay Reels will exhibit a variety of rescue hose and cable reels specifically designed for firefighting applications in booth #436 at the 2012 Lancaster County Firemen’s Association Expo, May 18-20 in Harrisburg, P.A.

During a large scale teambuilding session on March 24th 2012, the Mechelen F&R Service and other emergency response services within the safety region of Rivierenland (Belgium) used the virtual RescueSim platform for their incident response training.

Most firefighters would think barns hold nothing but farm equipment and livestock, but sometimes people live inside these structures. Chris Willis discusses tactical considerations for barn fires.

This week's featured firefighter near-miss report looks at one near miss in an arson fire that reminds us the hazards we face may be intentionally set.