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.

August Roundtable: Protecting Yourself on the Job

In your opinion, what is the one best thing an individual firefighter can do to keep from getting killed on the job? Share your replies with other Fire Engineering readers.

Roundtable: Tornadoes in New York City

Tornadoes, hurricanes, or large snow storms all require strict personnel accountability and safe, pre-planned staging areas either in our firehouses or other predesignated locations, writes Tom Dunne.

July Roundtable: Tornado Response

Does your fire 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? Share your experience with other Fire Engineering readers.

Roundtable Replies: Seat Belt Policy

Read Fire Engineering regulars' responses to this month's Roundtable question regarding mandatory seat belt policy and enforcement in the fire service.

June Roundtable: Seat Belt Policy

Does your department have a mandatory seat belt policy? Is it enforced and who is responsible for its enforcement?  Does the officer have any culpability if a firefighter knowingly violates the policy and should he? Send us your replies for possible Web publication.

May Roundtable: SCBA Enforcement for Toxic Atmosphere

Do you conduct atmospheric monitoring at fires and what additional steps if any are taken to protect firefighters during the overhaul phase of a fire? Read replies to this month's Roundtable question from Fire Engineering regulars.

May Roundtable: Firefighter Safety During Overhaul

Do you conduct atmospheric monitoring at fires and what additional steps if any are taken to protect firefighters during the overhaul phase of a fire? Send us your replies for possible publication on the Fire Engineering Web site.

April Roundtable Replies: Company-Level Training

Does your department require company officers to develop and deliver their company-level training? Read replies to this month's Roundtable question from Fire Engineering readers.

April Roundtable: Company-Level Training

Does your department require company officers to develop and deliver their company-level firefighter training? Send in your replies for possible publication on the Fire Engineering Web site.

March Roundtable Replies: Truck Doing Engine Work

In your department, would truck companies ever be expected to perform what is normally considered “engine” company functions? Read responses from other Fire Engineering readers.

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).