Tips for Safety and Firefighter Rescue
It never ceases to amaze us how adept firefighters are at finding ways to improve or modify existing ideas, practices, or tools.
FE Volume 161 Issue 4
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Right Ventricular Infarction
Your medic unit responds to a 54-year-old male with chest pain. On your arrival, he appears pale and diaphoretic and states he was watching television when the pain developed.
APPARATUS DELIVERIES: The Clinton-Warren Joint Fire District in Clinton County, Michigan, replaced an older minipumper
The Clinton-Warren Joint Fire District in Clinton County, Michigan, replaced an older minipumper with this SUMMIT rescue style midi-pumper.
When’s the Last Time You Held an Ax?
In today’s world, we fire-fighters must respond to hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, snowstorms, and all-out hellish weather.
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Dedicated Company Assignments: Some Q’s and A’s
Last month, when discussing dedicated company assignments, we explored some ways adopting this practice can improve overall fire company operations.
Blood Agent: Cyanogen Chloride
Blood agents are chemical warfare agents (CWA) that interfere with the ability of the bloodstream to transport oxygen to all the body’s cells (blood asphyxiants) or that make the cells unable to use the oxygen (tissue asphyxiants).
Background Checks
Over the past three years, volunteer, part-time, and career firefighters were charged with committing numerous criminal acts, including arson.
The Professor
Some firefighters call the push bar across the center of the door “panic hardware.
COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS
>> The NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL (NVFC) is accepting applications for the National Junior Firefighter Scholarship and Grant Program, sponsored by Dunkin’ Brands Community Foundation.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Iam responding to Jonathan Riffe’s Letter to the Editor published in the February 2008 issue in which he criticized our operations at a serious motor vehicle accident on December 23, 2006 (“Challenging and Difficult Auto Extrication,” Volunteers Corner, November 2007).
Quick, Quick, Quick, and Quicker
Last month we discussed how critical situation awareness is to effective fireground operations.
3D Models Help in Truck Manufacturing
Every fire department has different needs. Thus, input from emergency personnel is so important when emergency vehicles are custom built.