Six fantastic issues of Urban Firefighter Magazine have been created and gifted to you, the reader. We ask something in return: We ask that you continue to read and share this magazine with your fellow firefighters. We ask that you get something from each issue which should be easy enough, even if it’s a smile.
We are covering new ground again in Issue 6 with the inclusion of fitness, but not just any style of fitness: we’re talking functional fitness which is directly related to firefighting. Discover some of the hardest workouts you’ll ever want more of. We never stray far from our roots of experienced urban firefighters sharing procedures, tactics and tips. We always try to provide a focused look at things that impact the urban fire service and our readers.
We are one year into the decade which holds the promise of some interesting tactical developments, many good, and some bad. The urban setting is where many ideas originate and where some just land. We owe future firefighters a legacy of operational tactics that places them in the best position for success. Our ideas for the future – gained by countless extinguishments – needs to be the foundation upon which future firefighters operate. The culture of extinguishment is a model that does not evaporate like steam, instead it surges through urban hoselines across the country, dispersed in many forms to obtain the ultimate goal: extinguishment.
Keep Fire in Your Life
Ray McCormack
Publisher and Editor, Urban Firefighter Magazine
Issue 6. We have packed everything you have come to expect from Urban Firefighter Magazine into this issue.
You will meet new people and learn a few things from the ones you know. We strive to introduce you to people who are making a difference, either in their professions and actions, or through their writings. Either way, the urban firefighter in all of us should celebrate the collective of culture, duty and training; in the urban fire service, all three are synonymous and equal in their importance. And nothing is more important than the people that make up the fire service. At a time when we are losing this greatest resource to influences outside the purview of the firehouse and fire department, respectively, we need to understand that the culture we subscribe to and support is the one the next generation will want to be a part of. So come, take few minutes away from the newspapers and punditry and read why our culture is alive and well. And that the fire service will be, too.
Erich Roden
Publisher and Editor, Urban Firefighter Magazine
