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The 2007 edition of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1982, Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS), is now available at www.nfpa.org/pass.
FE Volume 160 Issue 4
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Grievance: When All Parties Do Not Agree
This month’s problem is not about looking for a solution to a particular issue but what to do when the “fix” is not something that all the parties agree is best.
Actions of the Chief Officer
Question: Once the chief arrives, some departments want him to take command from his vehicle.
Fireground Accountability Using Mobile GIS
THE FIRE SERVICE HAS BECOME interested in location tracking and accountability solutions.
More FE Volume 160 Issue 4
The “Information into Intelligence” Routine, Part 2
Last month, in Part 1, we described the converting “information into intelligence” process.
Side Airbag Tank Explosion Complicates Extrication of Victim
In October 2006, a two-vehicle accident occurred in northern New Jersey in which there was frontal off-set damage and a driver was medically entrapped.
Firefighter Survival: SCBA Air Confidence Drill
An officer and a firefighter on a handline enter a structure fire and begin extinguishment when without warning the floor gives way and they fall into the basement.
COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS
ONSPOT OF NORTH AMERICA has shipped its 50,000th set of automatic tire chains to Klam America of Denver, Colorado, which received a surprise “no charge” invoice with the delivery along with a “Thank You” note for its business.
Why Your Department Must Prepare for the Next 9/11
It has been more than five years since 9/11. It’s time to take a few minutes for a self-analysis to see where our fire service and your fire department are today.
Who Wants To Go Home?
I learned a phrase from a captain after we extinguished a working structure fire and were going back to the station.
Where is Your Training Center?
Where is your training center? Don’t answer just yet. You might be thinking that I am talking of a fixed or acquired training area where you “light it and fight it” again and again or perhaps a place you can fill with artificial smoke to practice your search/SCBA skills.
Why Can’t They Hear the Music?
We’ve all seen those B horror movies. We’ve all heard the “dum-dum-dum” spooky music build to a crescendo just as the villain reaches out from the shadows and decapitates the lovely unsuspecting cheerleader.