FE Volume 168 Issue 4
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High-Rise Firefighting: Reassessing Our Methods
Most cities' high-rise standard operating procedures/guidelines (SOPs/SOGs) were written decades ago when these buildings were much different than they are today and the understanding of…
Shift Day: a 24-Hour Extended Training Day
April 24, 2012, started out just like any other shift. We prepared our gear, checked off our trucks, and contemplated what the day would have…
Knowledge and Experience: Becoming the Senior Firefighter
Every day on fire apparatus across this country, senior firefighters are relied on for decision making during incidents. As company officers, apparatus operators, and firefighters,…
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Products
FLIR's K55 incorporates the company's Flexible Scene Enhancement technology, which produces ultra-crisp thermal imagery. It is also equipped with on-board video recording, image storage (up…
On-the-Job Training
With AN influx of probationary firefighters on the job, remember that these "probies" might not have all the knowledge we think they do about some…
Company/Association News
On Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, the FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (FASNY) will team with several New York State…
Apparatus Deliveries
The City of Passaic (NJ) Fire Department designed this PIERCE pumper for general firefighting and medical responses, says Chief Patrick Trentacost Jr.
“Walking” for Safety in Fire Structures
In the academy, we learn early that we will spend little time on our feet inside the fire, that to improve visibility, stay out of…
Reciprocal Rescue
Last month, we used an old-time unusual acronym POSDCORB (Planning/Organizing/ Staffing/Directing/COordinating/Reporting/Budgeting) to describe many of the regular management functions a boss must do to support…
Coordinated ventilation has a role
This is in reference to "Controlling the Openings: Is This the Future of Ventilation?" by Sean Gray (Fire Engineering, October 2014) and, in general, to…
news in brief
A study conducted by Jeffrey Saver, M.D., director of the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Center, and his colleagues sought to determine…
The Tactical Gap
04.16.2015
Are Liability Concerns Real?
04.13.2015
Duty, Honor, Country
04.13.2015
Fires Involving Means of Egress
04.13.2015
