VALIDATION OF A PHYSICAL WORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR INCUMBENT FIREFIGHTERS
BY DARRELL MENDENHALL, MS; STEVEN MOFFATT, MD; TISCH WILLIAMS, MA; MIKE REEVES; JAMES GREESON; C.
FE Volume 158 Issue 12
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Letters to the Editor
This refers to David Blossom’s “Fire Pumps: The Invisible Firefighter” (August 2005).
APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The Kossuth Volunteer Fire Department in Corinth, Mississippi, designed this ROSENBAUER/CENTRAL STATES pumper with a water tank sized to limit the vehicle weight, according to…
CLUSTER HOMES: UPDATE
A number of combustible homes are erected as close as six feet from each other, generally in areas being rehabilitated but already provided with infrastructure,…
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OCCUPATIONAL ATHLETES: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HUMAN FACTOR
There’s an old saying: You eat an elephant one bite at a time. The same logic applies to wooly mammoths, because that best describes the…
Writing Skills Needed
At no other time has the fire service had a greater need for literacy. All signs indicate a future in which reading and writing skills…
FIREFIGHTER EMERGENCY EGRESS TEST USING HI-IMPACT® WALLBOARD
Building industry practices have a fundamental impact on our ability to perform on the fireground.
RECRUIT ORIENTATION
Editor’s note: Here is “The Best of Brennan,” a column of Tom Brennan’s that appeared in the October 1988 issue and that still rings true…
WHAT IF YOU HAD A FIRE AND NOBODY CAME?
What if you had a fire and nobody came? Although that’s a little far-fetched, it could happen at any time.
ACQUIRING AND MAINTAINING GOOD FITNESS HABITS
The FEAT (Firefighter Emergency Abilities & Tasks) test is a 12-station evolution that uses common fireground tasks as exercise parameters.
COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS
● STERLING ROPE has been awarded a contract with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) to provide all firefighters citywide with FireTech 32™, a…
THE RIT BAG
When a firefighter is trap- ped in a working fire, regardless of whether it is a residence, a taxpayer, or an office building, that is…
