Roundtable

Roundtable: Truss Assembly Policy

Does your fire department have a policy concerning working above or below truss assemblies involved in fire? Share your experiences with other fire service members.

Roundtable: Apparatus Driver Training Program

Does your fire department have a certified/accepted driver training program? Discuss it with other firefighters in this month's Roundtable.

Roundtable: Fire Sprinklers and Fire Alarms

Does your fire department allow firefighters to replace discharged sprinkler heads and re-set fire alarm systems that malfunction? Join this month's discussion.

Roundtable: Regular Cleaning of Bunker Gear

Does your fire department require cleaning of bunker gear on some periodic schedule? Leave your comments and share your experience with other fire service members.

Roundtable: Response to Shooting Incidents

Does your fire department have an "active shooting incident procedure" and, if so, in a nutshell, what is it? Share your thoughts with other firefighters.

Firefighting: Roundtable: Booster Reel Use

Does your fire department allow the use of booster (1-inch rubber hose) for initial fire attack in structure fires? Share your knowledge with other firefighters from around the nation and world.

Roundtable: Self-Rescue Canisters

Does your department allow firefighters to carry self-rescue canisters? Share your experiences with other members of the fire service.

Roundtable: Firefighter Cell-Phone Use

Does your department have a policy concerning cell-phone use for on-duty firefighters? Share your experiences and observations with other Fire Engineering readers.

Roundtable: Does Your Department Have a Tornado Policy?

Does your department have a tornado policy and, if so, does it call for protecting the firefighters and also contain a post-storm component of what to do immediately after the storm passes?

Roundtable: PASS Device Training

Do your firefighters continually (on some repeating schedule) train on activating their PASS device? Do they practice this skill in a blacked-out face piece while wearing gloves? Talk about the decay of firefighting skills in this Roundtable.

Roundtable: Ventilation Science and Firefighting

Are you aware to the NIST studies concerning ventilation, and have those results altered or changed your current tactics as it relates to ventilation? Share your observations with other firefighters from around the country and world.

Roundtable: Company Drill Recommendations

In this month's roundtable, John "Skip" Coleman asks for your suggestions on good, inexpensive company drills you can have your firefighters perform.

Roundtable: Vent-Enter-Search on the Fireground

Does your fire department teach, train on, and perform VES? If so, is it performed with one or two firefighters? Share your replies with other Fire Engineering readers.

Roundtable: Fire Apparatus Driving and Data Collection

Is your fire department using data obtained from recording devices installed in fire apparatus for firefighter driver training? Share your replies with other firefighters from around the nation and world.

Roundtable: Working on Sprinklers

Do you reset sprinkler alarms panels and replace sprinkler heads as part of your normal duties? Share your experience with other firefighters and Fire Engineering readers.

December Roundtable: Mandatory Medical Monitoring for Firefighters

Does your fire department require mandatory medical monitoring of any sort for firefighters immediately after a working fire or other stressful incident? Share your replies with other firefighters from around the nation and world.

November Roundtable: Fire Department Morale

What, if anything, is your department doing to boost morale? Share your reflections with firefighters from around the nation and world.

Roundtable: Fire Attack and Water Supply

Does your fire department allow an engine company to initiate attack without securing a water supply? Discuss this month's Roundtable question with other firefighters from around the country and world.

September Roundtable: Buddy Breathing

Does your fire department teach and allow buddy breathing and the use of transfill or quickfill systems on your SCBAs? Share your responses with firefighters from around the country.

August Roundtable Replies: How Not to Get Killed Fighting Fires

This month's Roundtable question asked: In your opinion, what is the one best thing an individual firefighter can do to keep from getting killed on the job? Read Fire Engineering readers' replies to the question and offer your thoughts.

Skip Coleman

John “Skip” Coleman retired as assistant chief from the Toledo (OH) Department of Fire and Rescue. He is a technical editor of Fire Engineering; a member of the FDIC Educational Advisory Board; and author of Incident Management for the Street-Smart Fire Officer (Fire Engineering, 1997), Managing Major Fires (Fire Engineering, 2000), and Incident Management for the Street-Smart Fire Officer, Second Edition (Fire Engineering, 2008).