From the Fire Engineering Vault: Collapse Training

Los Angeles firefighters jump for their lives.

The May 1961 cover of Fire Engineering shows a dynamic fire scene as firefighters leap for their lives. Approaching a similar structure today, what are your size-up questions? How would the answers to these questions determine strategy and tactics? 

MORE FIRE SERVICE TRADITIONS AND HISTORY

‘Send Everything You’ve Got! It’s a Big One!’

The Great Conflagration at San Francisco

The 1898 Philly Fire Behind the Stolen Plaque

St Louis, Mo., 1914: Missouri Athletic Club and Other Fires

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.