Eight Years Later: Lessons from the Northridge Earthquake
On January 17, 1994, the Northridge earthquake took dozens of lives and caused massive damage. Writing in 2002, Larry Collins looks at lessons learned.
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‘Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back’
If the deaths of 343 firefighters in high-rise collapses do not represent a huge health and safety issue, what does?
TRUCK EXTRICATION FROM A SINKHOLE
Early one morning, two sanitation workers were driving down a residential street in a 16-ton garbage truck. Although it had not rained the night before, there was a large puddle in the middle of the street.
HIRING PRACTICES
The Toledo Department of Fire and Rescue has selected firefighters the same way for more than 20 years now. Since 1974, we have been under a Federal Court judge’s mandate for hiring. The process is slow and arduous, but I believe that in the long run it helps us select qualified firefighters.
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The NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (NFPA) Board of Directors elected James M. Shannon president and chief executive officer effective June 1, 2002. Shannon will succeed George D. Miller, who will retire after 10 years.
IS your SCBA WORKING PROPERLY?
Your SCBA may be the only thing standing between you and the great beyond. Here's how to make sure it's working properly. A lot of safety equipment is designed to protect human life by minimizing exposure to risk.
THE DEPARTMENT OFFICER AS CHANGE AGENT
Among the competencies volunteer fire department leaders must have is to know how to institute change where needed and how to manage the change instead of having the change manage them.
Saw Operations: The ‘Tap’ Method
Mike Ciampo offers some ideas that can add a measure of safety to your fire department’s roof operational procedures.
THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL THOUGHT PROCESS: THE STRUCTURE FIRE SIZE-UP
For years most of my efforts in training were devoted to getting the firefighter to adopt a habit of constantly thinking! The thinking firefighter is the safe, efficient, aggressive, and successful emergency worker.
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RUBE?S RULES:A COLLECTION OF CASE STUDIES from Fire Engineering Books and Videos
Names in the News
JAMES HOWELL, chief of the Lee County (FL) Port Authority Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Department, has been appointed to the Florida Fire Chiefs' Association's Wildland Fire Committee.
WTC: LIGHTWEIGHT STEEL AND HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
My brain probably resembles a hard drive that is heavily loaded and has not been defragged. A number of people have said they'd like to pick my brain about the World Trade Center (WTC) and high-rise buildings in general. Here are the pickings.