FE Volume 157 Issue 5

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PRIDE AND OWNERSHIP: THE LOVE FOR THE JOB – OUR MISSION

PRIDE AND OWNERSHIP: THE LOVE FOR THE JOB – OUR MISSION

For more than 200 years, the fire service has responded to just about every call for help and emergency imaginable, and we've responded to those requests without hesitation, attitude, or complaint.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Firefighting Servant Leadership: The Right Medicine

Firefighting Servant Leadership: The Right Medicine

Fire departments are as good as the people in them, so it’s only common sense to serve and empower the people who ultimately drive it.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefightingMagazine
ENGINE COMPANY SIZE-UP AT RESIDENTIAL FIRES

ENGINE COMPANY SIZE-UP AT RESIDENTIAL FIRES

Although all of the tradi- tional size-up points (Construction, Occupancy, Apparatus and Personnel, Life Hazard, Water Supply, Auxiliary Appliances, Street Conditions, Weather, Exposures, Area, Location/Extent/ Volume of Fire, Time, and Height) are always important, some pertain more to the engine company and how it will eventually operate.
Fire Apparatus
SEARCH

SEARCH

Of all the fireground evol- utions we perform, I believe search is the most poorly performed.
Firefighter TrainingSearch Operations

More FE Volume 157 Issue 5

Company / Association News

Company / Association News

PIERCE MANUFACTURING INC. and ADVANCED CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS, INC. (ACSI) of Houston, Texas, have entered into an exclusive marketing and supplier partnership to sell a full line of decontamination vehicles, trailers, and equipment used for homeland security applications.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Preplanning Building Hazards

Preplanning Building Hazards

Heavy wood firestopping was removed to install a standpipe main requested by the fire department.
FirefightingStructural Firefighting
First National Bank of Credibility

First National Bank of Credibility

Being a fire chief is a tough job. Every day, people who've never walked a mile in our shoes are lining up to judge us by our actions and our inactions, by our words and our silence, by our decisions and our indecisions, and by the way we behave under stress and the pressure of being the person with the ultimate responsibility for providing emergency services in our towns.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Safety at Random

Safety at Random

We are still discussing search as a tactic that supports the interior firefight during a structure fire and how it relates to safety.
Fire Safety
Products/Services/Media

Products/Services/Media

MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY! THE DAY THE TOWERS FELL,
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Names in the News

Names in the News

JULIUS "JOE" CHERRY has been named chief of the Sacramento (CA) Fire Department.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
NEW AUTO SAFETY TECHNOLOGY, PART 1

NEW AUTO SAFETY TECHNOLOGY, PART 1

Motor vehicle rescue can be one of the most rewarding and simultaneously one of the most challenging tasks that an emergency responder will confront in his career.
Technical RescueVehicle Extrication
APPARATUS DELIVERIES

APPARATUS DELIVERIES

The Bainbridge Island (WA) Fire Department purchased this GENERAL SAFETY/METZ quint with a rear steering tag axle for maneuverability in accessing commercial structures and difficult-to-reach multiple dwellings of more than four stories, explains Chief Jim Walkowski.
Fire Apparatus

Letters to the Editor

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Firefighter for a Day: A Tale of Two Cities

Fire PreventionFire Safety

MOBILE HOMES FIRES, PART 2: OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

News in Brief

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Searching Commercial Structures

Firefighter TrainingSearch Operations

BREATHING APPARATUS CONTROL PROCEDURES: LEARNING FROM THE U.K.

Firefighter SCBAFirefighting Equipment

ENGINE AND TRUCK INITIAL ACTIONS AT A HAZ-MAT RESPONSE

Fire Apparatus

REHABILITATION: STANDARDS, TRAPS, AND TOOLS

Firefighter ToolsFirefighting Equipment

Matters of the Heart

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

FIRE TECHNOLOGY FOR A SAFER TOMORROW

Fire Safety

Firefighting in Correctional Facilities

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

FIRST-ALARM CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE INITIAL IC

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
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