AERIAL OPERATIONS FOR LOW-RISE BUILDINGS
Is your aerial a very expensive taxi or a tool? How does your aerial support your operation?
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TIPS FOR LEARNING YOUR WAY AROUND YOUR RESPONSE AREA
From my first days in the fire service, I was taught that “time saves lives”: For every minute a fire progresses, the potential injury and…
MEDICAL MONITORING
Again, we prove to be our own worst enemy. We know what kills us! Stress, particularly to the cardiovascular system, is the number one killer…
DETACHABLE LADDER PIPE OPERATIONS
You are a firefighter assigned to a ladder truck company. Your regular apparatus, a state-of-the-art tower ladder, is in the maintenance shop.
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TOPSIDE SAFETY
It is 2 a.m., and Engine 3 is first to arrive at a fully involved detached garage fire with a single-family exposure on sides B…
AIR MANAGEMENT: KNOW YOUR AIR-CONSUMPTION RATE
The engine company officer pauses in the kitchen at the basement door, feeling the doorknob for heat.
SIZE-UP AT COMMERCIAL BUILDING FIRES
The focus of this column on the necessary tactics specific to different building types.
ASSESSING YOUR STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT
Since the first edition of my book, Fire Department Strategic Planning: Creating Future Excellence, was published in 1998, I have been working with numerous fire…
THE CHIEF’S PROBLEM IS THE CHIEF!
Most of the problems facing a fire chief are created by others-employees, bosses, elected officials, and citizens, for example.
TESTING YOUR TARGET FLOW
Extinguishing the fire is the most basic and most critical operation for all fire departments.
Hose stretches in multiple-dwelling fires
Certain areas of New York City have entire blocks of buildings, including large H-types, that have one or two entrances through interior courtyards.
News in Brief
All first responders must continually exchange information in best practices in the evolving discipline of homeland security responses if there is to be an improvement…
Apparatus Showcase
10.01.2006
