Apparatus Deliveries
The LeDuc County Fire Services (Nisku, Alberta, Canada) has in service a CAFS mini-pumper and a tanker built by FORT…
FE Volume 169 Issue 6
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Secondary Will Be Delayed
Just after midnight, the tones suddenly went off, but they were only for the chief.
Company/Association News
FIRE DEPARTMENT SAFETY OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (FDSOA) was awarded the 2016 Senator Paul S. Sarbanes Fire Service Safety Leadership Award by The Congressional Fire Services Institute…
Coming Events
conferences/exhibitions JULY 12-16, Clinicon Annual Conference. Orlando, Florida. Sponsor: Emergency Medicine Learning & Resource Center. Contact: (407) 281-7396, (800) 766-6335. Fax: (407) 281-4407. Web site:…
More FE Volume 169 Issue 6
Outside/In Fires: Two Incidents, Two Outcomes
Seemingly innocent human activities can contribute to a devastating event. Joseph T. Berry on fires that start outside of structures and extend inside.
Products
Pierce Manufacturing, Inc.’s PIERCE® ASCENDANT™ is the most popular new aerial apparatus in the company’s history. Delivering a full 107-foot vertical and a 100-foot horizontal…
Respiratory Physiology, Ergonomics, and Your SCBA
A look at factors that affect your respiratory efficiency, such as your physical size and how long your air supply will last. PAUL O. DAVIS
How Effective Is Your Safety Committee?
Although not a glamorous topic, you must ensure that you identify, evaluate, prioritize, and control risks that can lead to bad outcomes for your personnel and your department. RYAN GALLIK
Smoke Toxin Lessons Learned: Cancer and Respiratory Distress
An incident prompted an Arkansas department to identify practices that put personnel at risk for cancer and ways to protect them from harmful exposures. TODD ANDREWS
Anatomy of a Kansas Department’s Hostile Event Response Plan
Is your department prepared to handle a mass shooting? If you do not have a plan, learn how this Kansas department created a model procedure to coordinate response among police, fire, and EMS personnel. SCOTT FINAZZO
Stuck in School
My time in Battalion 3 B Shift "catapulted" me into a very interesting and steep learning curve as a brand new command-level boss.
Grow where you’re planted
My children love stories as much as I love being a firefighter. Since many of my nights are spent at the firehouse, I make sure that any night that I’m home I read them a story just before bed.