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Just before her 16th birthday, Sabrina Cohen-Hatton left her childhood home in Newport, south Wales, to live on the streets. During the following two years of sleeping rough, in and [...]

Byline: SHUAN SIM Oren Barzilay, president of the labor union for the city Fire Department's emergency medical services, Local 2507, has addressed many disasters since he joined the force in [...]

Every one of the millions of Mustangs out there started with an original owner. Some were sold and resold. Others were crashed, rodded, raced, or driven into the ground. But [...]

Nine Charleston, SC, firefighters died in a fire in a furniture store on June 18, 2007. In the preparation of this article, Firehouse® Magazine was given permission to talk to [...]

Back in the early 1970s, Pete Lazdins was a recent college graduate with an uncertain future. At the suggestion of a close friend's father, Lazdins applied for a hydraulics clerk [...]

Firehouse[R] Magazine is proud to present our first 'Volunteer Leadership Roundtable,' featuring the views of a cross-section of leaders from the volunteer fire-rescue service. These are people who have stepped [...]

Once upon a time, our nation harbored a somewhat fantastical image of firefighters: handsome young men and their flashy engines, taking Spot for a jaunt around the block, occasionally dashing [...]

Fighting wildfires is no easy task. It takes hard work, skill, and bravery. Weekly Reader spoke with Captain Brian Webster. For 27 years, he has been a firefighter in California. [...]

Looking around his East Meadow office, it's easy to see that Richard Bivone spent 18 years with the New York City Fire Department. Visitors enter through a fire-red door. His [...]

There has been some controversy over whether there is a connection between firefighting and incidents of cancer. Mike Dubron, founder of the Firefighter Cancer Support Network, spoke with FIRE CHIEF's [...]

In 2004, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation developed the 16 Life-Safety Initiatives that are at the core of the Everyone Goes Home program. The program's goal was to reduce firefighter [...]

Paul Fisher is senior fire officer at London Ashford airport (Lydd). He explains what makes an airfield firefighter and why it is practice that provides the vital seconds that can [...]

A firefighter was out at a social event with his wife when he was introduced to someone who had never met a firefighter before. During their conversation, the person asked, [...]

Byline: Tuck, Stephanie In a trademark rapid-fire blitz, tough guy and funnyman Denis Leary answers questions about life, death, and what it really means to help a guy out In [...]

Matthew Beckel and Bob Newell Jr., Kripplebush, N.Y., March 23, 2002 Beckel (in neck brace): ''I was 16 years old. I just got my license, and I had swerved to [...]

'The rescue companies are the eyes and ears for everyone. If you get a report of people trapped, then we'll spearhead our attack up to that particular area. And maybe [...]

* "A good firefighter must be not only mentally and physically competent, but creative and organized," says Wayne Williams. "It comes down to being able to trust another smokejumper with […]

As Christine Guelpa sat watching the fire trucks pass by her office window, she came to recognize that that was where she needed to be. She wanted to help others, [...]

Q & A with Robert Athanas Member, NFPA Technical Committee on Electronic Safety Equipment The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has issued the 2007 edition of NFPA 1982, Standard on [...]

My daughter met Lieutenant Warren Grant when he taught fire safety to her class at school. She learned a lot from Firefighter Grant. I wanted to learn from him, too, [...]