Home / FE Volume 162 Issue 10

FE Volume 162 Issue 10

The Latest

Product showcase: Quala-Tel and Sigtronics

Quala-Tel and Sigtronics have announced the development of two new Headset designs that feature a heavy-duty noise canceling electret boom mic and a detachable headset plug-in cord. The new headsets are available in two styles—for use with a helmet and without a helmet.

Fire Prevention Fire Safety

Product showcase: Rescue 42’s JACKMATE

Rescue 42’s JACKMATE® replaces a standard lift jack’s limited capacity top clamp with a multipurpose attachment and is rated to the full capacity of…

Technical Rescue

Product showcase: Hannay Reels

Hannay Reels offers an updated, full-color CATALOG featuring its Rescue Reels Series of hose and cable reels to meet the needs of firefighters and emergency…

Firefighter Tools Firefighting Equipment

Product showcase: Hansen Fire & Safety’s BRAVO EXTRICATION GLOVE

Responders can now handle equipment easily during emergency operations while their hands stay cool and dry. Hansen Fire & Safety’s BRAVO EXTRICATION GLOVE—the first form-fitting…

Fire Prevention Fire Safety

More FE Volume 162 Issue 10

Product showcase: Niedner’s POWERLINE

Niedner’s POWERLINE® is a unique hose designed by firefighters for maximum performance, dependability, and kink resistance. POWERLINE is a 100-percent polyester double jacket, 800-psi factory-tested…

Firefighter Training

Product showcase: Fire Research

Fire Research innovates a better and faster way to slip on your SCBA breathing bottle without hassles and difficult contortions. The BOTTLE BUTLER’s flexible “arms”…

Firefighter SCBA Firefighting Equipment

Product showcase: Columbia Southern University

Columbia Southern University offers completely online fire science programs designed to take your career to the next level. From learning about fire prevention to fire…

Fire Prevention Fire Safety

Aerial Training Accident Results in Firefighter Deaths

In November 2008, the Kilgore (TX) Fire Department replaced its 1986 110-foot, rear-mount, straight-stick aerial truck that was out of service because it failed a…

Firefighter Training

Critiques = Keepin’ Score

This month we look at the critique part of the performance-management process. The critique provides a standard postincident review that asks and (hopefully) answers the…

Firefighting

Wildfires projected to increase 50 percent by 2050

The area of forest burned by wildfires in the United States will increase by more than 50 percent by the year 2050, according to research…

Fire EMS Firefighting

Why we do what we do

One of the things I have always loved about being a firefighter is that when we aren’t helping other people we help each other get…

Firefighting

Product showcase: Petzl

EXO PERSONAL ESCAPE SYSTEM, providing firefighters with a fast, reliable means of escape from a burning structure when a conventional exit is no longer possible.…

Fire EMS Firefighting