“TEACHING THE FIRE FORCE TWENTYSOMETHINGS, PART 2”

In preparation for teaching the twentysomethings, you must assess their learning abilities and communicate your department’s vision, core values, and expectations to new employees. You will have to do more research on each candidate and provide more feedback than you ever did in the 1980s. You already may require a medical physical and a physical agility test for your firefighter candidates.
COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS

William C. Peters, Fire Engineering editorial advisory board member and author of Fire Apparatus Purchasing Handbook (Fire Engineering Books, 1994), will conduct the “Fire Apparatus…

“BREAD AND BUTTER OPERATION: TOWNHOUSES AND THEIR “”ANCESTORS,”” PART 2″

Normal operations for a fire reported in one building in a block of row-frame buildings call for the engine company to proceed to the reported…

“PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND MEDIA”

Fire Products Manufacturing, Inc.: 1 ½-inch Model FP1-125 bent tube monitor; 18 inches high, 11 inches wide, 20-lb. weight. Provides flows from 125 to 350…
TRAINING AIDS

TRAINING AIDS

STUDENT REVIEW MANUAL: EXERCISES FOR THE EMT-A AND EMT-I, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Manual (378 pages) correlated to AAOS’s training text Emergency and…

NEWS IN BRIEF

The following, submitted by David J. Barillo, M.D., presents another perspective on the issue of using anticyanide medication to treat victims of smoke inhalation (see…

TROUBLE IN OUR BRIDGES

Last year, I found myself facing an incident and contemplating a decision that I had not experienced in my 20 years in the fire service.…