Search

The fireground is dangerous and can be unforgiving to crews that don't perform safely and correctly. It isn't a place to show up unrehearsed. As the basics of vertical ventilation [...]

A cross these experiments, a common theme emerged with respect to fireground coordination. When ventilation was provided by opening the front door for access or by conducting horizontal or vertical [...]

On March 14, 2019, at 8:36 a.m., a house fire was dispatched in New Castle County, DE. The single-family dwelling was built in 1910 and had approximately 2,100 square feet [...]

In recruit fire training, the curriculum is so rigid and the schedule so tight it's hard to fit in anything extra. We spend the greatest amount of our time in [...]

A commercial garage requires a long-span roof support system in order to create an open-floor design without roof-support columns, which often interfere with vehicle movement, forcing trucks and cars to [...]

Operating in many towns across the country, car wash establishments are a part of the fabric of 'Main Street America.' Although a response to a fire at a car wash [...]

The concept of firefighter rescue and rapid intervention has constantly evolved throughout the history of the American fire service. While innovations in technology have been instrumental in both firefighter safety [...]

Knowledge of building construction plays a critical role in decision-making at fire scenes. Wood-frame buildings in particular supply fuel to a fire and can pose collapse dangers to firefighters. With [...]

As early as the late 1990s, Australian fire services began to adopt a Swedish approach to structural firefighting techniques and tactics. This followed a similar move in the United Kingdom [...]

Fire personnel across the entire nation are responding to an alarming trend of increasing vegetation fires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). These incidents are immensely destructive, as evidenced by the [...]

Fires in strip stores are more dangerous than residential fires. Why? The common cockloft spreads fire quickly, dangerous explosive materials can be stored inside, and parapet walls and suspended ceilings [...]

A'disruptor' is defined as something that prevents a process from continuing as usual or as expected. It can also change a traditional way of operating to a new or more [...]

AS YOU READ, THINK ABOUT: What are some ways aircraft can save lives during wildfires? It's August 21, and Chris Haas is dangling from a rope below a helicopter. Nearby, [...]

Fire departments in urban and metropolitan areas respond to a variety of emergencies involving railways, whether inside the terminal, at the platform, along the tracks or at railroad crossings. We [...]

Smoke. Although it is a good indicator for reading the fire, and may give you a clue about the stage of fire, let's face it, our job would be far [...]

'Dispatch from Engine 20, we are on location at 9th and Market streets. We have smoke showing from the top floor of the three-story Center City Mall. The building is [...]

When our personal drive for successful fire suppression combines with the human interest factor of structures and the entire associated infrastructure, the pressure on responders is immense. The potential of [...]

An alarm comes in at 5 p.m. on a cold winter evening for a fire on the third floor of a 23-story residential high rise. The building is Type 1 [...]

In all branches of emergency response, there are common themes and definitions that are held to be universal. In recent years, one of these terms has been situational awareness. Whether [...]

' A ttention Engine 19, Ladder 8 and Battalion 9: Respond to an activated alarm system at Germantown Nursing Home, 105 School-house Lane, time out 1210 HRS.' 'Dispatch from Engine [...]

Through the years, many fire departments have become totally dependent on preconnected hoselines. At one time when staffing was good, hoselines off the rear hosebed were the norm. As staffing [...]

Not many firefighters like the term 'slab savers,' as it seems to go against everything we are trying to do--save lives and property. Saving lives and property from fire is [...]

Fire season is inevitable every year throughout the Western United States. Over the years, wildfires have burned millions of acres, destroyed thousands of structures, and caused multiple injuries and fatalities, [...]

On Feb. 4, 2017, at 2328 hrs, the University of Maryland Security Operations Center (SOC) received the first of multiple fire alarm activations through the university's Keltron Alarm Monitoring System. [...]

The Grenfell fire in London drew attention to the problem of combustible fafade. Earlier fires in France and Dubai also led to spectacular fires, but with no or very limited [...]

Vertically ventilating the roof of a strip mall can be categorized as a low-frequency/high-risk event. Less than 10 percent of all fires are located in stores or strip malls, but [...]

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, NY, AUG. 22,2019--Around 9:45 a.m. Briarcliff Manor firefighters were dispatched out to the Landmark Diner on South Highland Avenue for the report of a kitchen fire. On arrival [...]

Most fire officers feel that if they are able to receive accurate information, they can handle whatever problems an incident scene presents. They also realize that gathering accurate data requires [...]

Cell phones allow instant communications more than ever before. This seems to be driven by a need to know what is happening at all times in the everyday lives of [...]

As I travel across the country, I am amazed by the lessons I learn and the new tactics that I see being developed and modified by firefighters and officers everywhere. [...]