FE Volume 169 Issue 1

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Fire Leadership: Twitter, Funerals, and Loyalty

Fire Leadership: Twitter, Funerals, and Loyalty

Recently, one of our social media interns noticed a tweet by a well-known fire service author and, following his lead, retweeted the same post as “Fire Engineering.” The post was in many respects uncomplimentary to my good friends at the International Society for Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI) and other fire service groups that I respect greatly.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th

I'm not the most superstitious person, but I will admit that if I’m working the night tour on a Friday the 13th, my mind often wanders.
Firefighting Equipment
Company/Association News

Company/Association News

FIRE TRAINING STRUCTURES (FTS) has selected B2W Estimate to streamline the company’s bidding process. FTS assists fire service professionals’ training needs by fabricating customized training…
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Products

Products

KIMTEK Corporation’s FIRELITE® TRANSPORT UTV, MODEL FTUHP-UTV-205, is designed to fit into many of the larger side-by-side vehicles available today. The optional rescue area is…
Fire PreventionFire Safety

More FE Volume 169 Issue 1

The PBI Lightweight Gold System

The PBI Lightweight Gold System

Modern turnout gear was designed-primarily-to provide protection from heat and flame exposure. And statistics now show that this works!
Fire PreventionFire Safety
Apparatus Deliveries

Apparatus Deliveries

The Fairbanks (AK) Fire Department designed this SVI TRUCKS heavy rescue vehicle to focus on current and future growth, says Battalion Chief Brian C. Davis.…
Fire Apparatus
Bringing Fire Prevention to Foreign-Born Populations

Bringing Fire Prevention to Foreign-Born Populations

The fire service is made up of problem solvers. We get a call, we respond, we mitigate a problem, and we return to quarters.
Fire PreventionFire Safety
Redefining Hybrid Construction

Redefining Hybrid Construction

It is a term used too often and inaccurately. The fact is, a hybrid building will not behave how we expect it to under fire conditions, so knowledge and preplanning are musts.  BRIAN CRIMMINS      
Building ConstructionFire Safety
Fire Alarm Response: What’s the Real Problem?

Fire Alarm Response: What’s the Real Problem?

Alarm activations and malfunctions can place an undue burden on responders. When do you know there is a problem? How can you determine a course of action to remedy the problem? DAN KERRIGAN
Fire PreventionFire Safety
Changing the Shape of the Fire Service Hierarchy

Changing the Shape of the Fire Service Hierarchy

Total quality management is a concept that many in the fire service consider radical because it focuses on what the public perceives it wants and needs from the fire service, not what the fire service thinks the public wants and needs. JEFFREY W. MORAN      
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Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Reactors

Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Reactors

The focus is on how to conduct a fire risk assessment for heavy water nuclear reactors, specifically five methodologies and which is the best to use. HOSSAM SHALABI    
Fire PreventionFire Safety
The Geometry of Fire Investigation: Interpreting Fire Patterns

The Geometry of Fire Investigation: Interpreting Fire Patterns

When understood properly, burn patterns make the area of fire origin "pop out" at the investigator. DOUG LEIHBACHER      
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Your FDIC International 2016 “Backstage Pass”

FDIC Coverage

Avoid Tactical Breakdown: Respect Lightweight Construction

Building ConstructionFire Safety

Cross-Laminated Timber Structures

Fire PreventionFire Safety

Massive Fire Destroys New Jersey Lightweight Wood-Frame Apartment Building

FirefightingPhotosStructural Firefighting

The Land of Misfit Toys

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

A closer look at a bidirectional flow path

Firefighting

news in brief

Fire EMS OldFirefighting

Rapid Intervention Teams: Saving Their Own

Firefighting

FE Volume 169 Issue 1

Issues

Comparing Manual and Mechanical Chest Compressions

Firefighting

Working with the DL Blitz Load

Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

Volunteer Firefighters: Work with Your Elected Officials for Greater Success

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting