Steve Chikerotis to Receive 2024 Tom Brennan Lifetime Achievement Award
Deputy District Chief (Ret.) Steve Chikerotis of the Chicago (IL) Fire Department is the recipient of the 2024 Tom Brennan Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Battalion ‘Assignment’ System
Personnel, people working on-shift, could not be unbalanced within the neighborhood (battalion) in which you were assigned.
THOSE FIRST DAYS ON THE JOB: ANYTHING BUT ROUTINE, PART 1
“I can’t believe how easy it was to get to this roof,” my mind meandered as I “popped” out of the scuttle to the roof…
A FEW “HISTORICAL” MOMENTS
Working for Captain Nolan was like working for an historical figure named Florian1—a great firefighter, an officer, a teacher, a leader, and a saint.
More Tom Brennan
IN THE BEGINNING
My father and my grandfather were firefighters. Both were a product of old traditional Irish heritage when it came to family.
TALES FROM TRUCK 111
111 Truck. One-Eleven in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) was another truly unique place in which I was fortunate to have worked and…
FIRE ENGINEERING MOURNS LOSS OF TOM BRENNAN
It is with great sadness that Fire Engineering announces the loss of its former editor and technical editor Tom Brennan at the age of 66.…
SAFETY, PART 2
We were talking about safe operations for responding and returning, and perhaps we should visit there for a little longer (a term I stole from…
Safety
Most of you who know me understand that I am usually not impressed with statistics that seem to support an exciting or excitable subject that…
STRATEGY IS NOT A STAND-ALONE CONCEPT
I reserved this space in this mag- azine 20 years ago to hang out with you and “shoot the breeze” about one predominant subject, operations-responding…
STILL TALKIN’ IN THE KITCHEN ….
We have been talking (at least I was), about those tactics, tasks, and procedures that occur on most well-trained operations that support aggressive structure firefighting.
RECRUIT ORIENTATION
Editor’s note: Here is “The Best of Brennan,” a column of Tom Brennan’s that appeared in the October 1988 issue and that still rings true…
PORTABLE LADDER SAFETY
04.01.2001
YOU SHOULD K.I.S.S. THIS “JOB”
02.01.1998
THE FLOOR ABOVE, PART 4
10.01.1996
PEARLS, OYSTERS, PHOENIX, ASHES
12.01.1995
