APPARATUS DELIVERIES
● The Calgary Fire Department in Alberta, Canada, uses this SVI TRUCKS, INC.
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FUN AT THE FIREHOUSE
There are many ways YOU can educate your community while having fun at the firehouse.
CONTINUITY OF SERVICES
As the fire chief or the head of a division, you are responsible for all the services provided within your domain even though you may not directly provide them.
EDUCATION VS. EXPERIENCE
Bob Dylan wrote the song “The Times They Are A-Changin’” back when some of you reading this may not have even been born.
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COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS
● ADELPHI UNIVERSITY received a donation to create a 9/11 Memorial Endowment Scholarship in memory of and in tribute to those in the fire service who gave their lives in the line of duty on September 11, 2001.
Preplanning Building Hazards
Editor’s note: For further reference, consult Building Construction for the Fire Service, Third Edition (BCFS3).
IMPALEMENT EXTRICATION
On August 25, 2005, at 12:40 p.m., the Wyckoff (NJ) Fire Department was dispatched to assist at the scene of a serious motor vehicle accident on Route 208 North in Wyckoff, New Jersey.
LEADING IN A TACTICAL PARADISE
You are a fire officer in your small town. This simple statement carries a considerable amount of responsibility.
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.
CUTTING TECHNIQUES
Let’s consider cutting evolu- tions. What kind of vehicle components do we have to sever today, and what tools and operations do we use? More important, how effective are these operations today? With the new materials and construction used in contemporary vehicles, we must reevaluate our tools and look at the evolutions we have learned in a new light (photo 1).
THOUGHTS ON THE TWIN TOWERS COLLAPSE
The collapse of the World Trade Center’s (WTC) Twin Towers killed almost all of the 343 members of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) who died and a large percentage of the other 2,477 casualties.
Letters to the Editor
In his Letter to the Editor (October 2005), John H. Busching, of the Fire Department of New York’s (NYPD) Emergency Service Unit’s (ESU) Specialized Training School, expressed his displeasure with comments made in the Editor’s Opinion (Fire Engineering, June 2005) and my article “Helicopter Operations for High-Rise Emergencies” (June 2003).