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FE Volume 164 Issue 7

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Silent Trumpets: When Leadership Fails

These words should influence us throughout every day we spend as officers. Each time we decide to act or not to act, regardless of whether we are on the fireground, in the firehouse, or in our office, these words should be ringing loud and true.

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Bull in a China Shop

After extinguishing what seemed to be a simple room-and-contents fire, truck company members began to overhaul the fire room to check for extension. They needed…

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Fire Apparatus

COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION researchers in Boulder, Colorado, discovered that smoke from forest fires contains isocyanic acid, which can be harmful to human health.…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Names in the News

The National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) awarded GREGORY G. NOLL with the John M. Eversole Lifetime Achievement Award. Established in 2007, the John…

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Hazmat Technical Rescue

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Critical Fireground Factors List

Last month we started to describe how the initial and ongoing size-up is made up primarily of critical fireground factors. These critical factors together create…

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Firefighting

(July 2011)

I recently read on fireengineering.com “On Firefighter Training: Being Your Best Is Their Best Chance” by Brian Brush. It was a great article, and I…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Fire department/EMS AEDs recalled

At the end of April, Defibtech, LLC initiated a worldwide voluntary recall of certain DDU-100 series semiautomatic external defibrillators (AEDs) sold under the Lifeline AED…

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Fire EMS Firefighting

The Ripple Effect of a Traffic Collision

Rarely does one stop to consider all the effects that follow a roadway crash and all the harm it can do to the driver, passengers,…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Private-Dwelling Fire Drill

This fire is in a 1½-story private dwelling. The fire conditions are rapidly changing, and members operating inside the structure might not be aware of…

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Firefighter Drills Firefighter Training

Successful Fund Drives

Communities or their local governments should provide a local volunteer fire department with all of its operational needs through taxation. However, sometimes fire department fund-raise…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Brown M&M’s

There is an extremely well-known and respected deputy chief from the North Hudson, New Jersey, area. He is admired for his no-nonsense attitude on the…

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Fire Department Leadership Firefighting