FDIC 2025 Preview: Rural Water Movement Operations
This class from Bill Adkins will discuss various strategies and tactics for rural water movement from nurse tankers.
1 min read
rural firefighting
The Latest
Rural Mindset: Are You Using Residential Tactics on a ‘Rural’ Industrial Building?
Do you look at barns and large storage structures as losses from the beginning, ready to call in the excavator for the rubble pile?
11 min read
Rural Water Supply in a Long-Lane Setting
Rural firefighting requires aggressive tender operations, drafting operations, and draft hydrants to maintain critical water flow
7 min read
The Firefighter: A Jack-of-All-Trades
Tim Pillsworth discusses how we can remain masters of firefighting basics and still meet our communities' expectations when it comes to all-hazard response.
11 min read
More rural firefighting
Rural Firefighting Operations: A Look at What Works
The majority of the fire service resides in a rural setting. Seth Barker discusses strategies and tactics for rural firefighting operations.
10 min read
Grain Bin Rescue: Are You Ready?
Tim Zehnder provides an overview of fire department response to grain bin rescue incidents and offers some tips for such rescues.
9 min read
Rural Structure Fire Unexpectedly Involves Lithium-Ion Batteries
Eric Bachman describes an ordinary fire response that turned out to involve lithium ion (Li-ion) battery storage.
11 min read
One Dead in WV House Fire
The Wilderness Fire Department in Mount Lookout confirmed that one person died in a house fire in Nicholas County Monday afternoon.
1 min read
The Struggle of Full-Time Rural Firefighting
Staffing issues are compelling some rural departments to either write off buildings or go full "John Wayne"—but, Jake Hammond asks, at what cost?
11 min read
Performance Testing Your Fire Tanker
How much water does your tanker/tender actually hold? At fires in areas without hydrants, you can’t use water that doesn’t efficiently come out of your…
12 min read
Multicounty Response Needed to Extinguish WI Corn Dryer Fire
Fire crews from three counties responded to a fire that erupted inside a corn dryer in Kiel Tuesday afternoon.
1 min read
‘My ‘She-Shed’ Is on Fire!’: Response to Fires in Residential Workshops and Outbuildings
Fire department command staff must identify residential outbuildings in their district and develop response plans for them. Read more from Robert Callahan.
19 min read
