THE DOCUMENTATION DILEMMA: ONE SOLUTION

In this age of documentation and compliance, how would you rate your department’s ability to store and retrieve the data needed to justify requests for additional personnel or equipment or to satisfy state and federal mandatory requirements? Your department, for example, already should have implemented policies for meeting documentation requirements established by the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act of 1986 (SARA Title III) and the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120).

NEWS IN BRIEF

Fire Safety House saves life “The firefighters showed me what to do when I was in the ‘house’ ” is the explanation four-year-old Octavia Harris…

PREPLANNING FOR APARTMENT COMPLEX RESPONSE

It is 9:45 p.m. at Station 8, and the evening has been relatively quiet, with only a false alarm and a car fire right after…

A COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM

The year 1952 was a significant milestone in the history of the Philadelphia Fire Department: The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter came into being, the old…

A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO LARGE-DIAMETER HOSE

Large-diameter hose (LDH) advocates say that LDH is the “do all and end all” of moving water to the fire scene. Some tout claims of…

APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Weehawken is a small urban town on the shore of the Hudson River in densely populated Hudson County, New Jersey. The fire department placed in…