QUICK DRILLS
The next time you have duty at the fire station, take a few minutes and give your peers a Quick Drill, which is a way for veterans to pass along their experience to probies.
FE Volume 155 Issue 6
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Burning Issues: LIVE FIRE TRAINING vs. LITTLE CIRCUSES
If your house is made of con-crete and decorated with neatly stacked pallets, then propane burn house training is just fine. But you would still…
News
The late Raymond Downey, deputy chief of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), was the recipient of the Congres-sional Fire Services Institute 2002 Mason…
Changing the World
Why is there no full-scale investigation of the largest fire-induced collapse in world history? Why was steel evidence being broken down and sold for scrap…
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SELECTING A HEALTH/FITNESS/WELLNESS DIRECTOR
Health, fitness, and wellness receive a lot of attention in the fire service these days. These terms are used somewhat interchangeably, but most people think…
Letters
It's Saturday afternoon. I am driving east on Interstate 64 with Louisville, Kentucky, in my rearview mirror. Two hours ago, my four colleagues from Chesterfield…
CHILD ABUSE: recognition and resolution
Child abuse is the infliction of an intentional injury that harms a child; it can be physical, emotional, or sexual. Child neglect is the failure…
FIREFIGHTERS ANONYMOUS: A 12-STEP PROGRAM
Firefighter safety is about 10 percent related to new technology and equipment and about 90 percent to firefighter behaviors. With that in mind, I researched…
Apparatus Deliveries
The Qatar Ministry of Defense placed in service four EMERGENCY ONE pumpers designed to perform in the adverse environments and rugged terrain of the Persian…
USING NFPA 1500 TO DEVELOP A HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM
The William Stieger Act creating the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed in 1970. It led to the creation of the Occupational Safety and…
PYRAMIDAL ROOFS
A pyramidal roof support is made up of short light-steel sections in a space frame, a three-dimensional truss. If fire is in the roof, the…
A STRUCTURED SYSTEM FOR FIRE INVESTIGATOR SAFETY
Fire investigators respond to various residential, commercial, and industrial fire scenes on a daily basis. If not managed properly, these incidents can pose numerous potential…
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