The Kossuth Volunteer Fire Department in Corinth, Mississippi, designed this ROSENBAUER/CENTRAL STATES pumper with a water tank sized to limit the vehicle weight, according to Chief Adron Hodum.
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“Perfect” information has a significant impact on effective incident management decisions fire department incident commanders make on-scene, but such information does not exist in a dynamically changing emergency.
When a firefighter is trap- ped in a working fire, regardless of whether it is a residence, a taxpayer, or an office building, that is not the time to come up with a plan for getting that person air until he is rescued.
● STERLING ROPE has been awarded a contract with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) to provide all firefighters citywide with FireTech 32™, a personal escape rope for use in “bailout” situations.
At no other time has the fire service had a greater need for literacy. All signs indicate a future in which reading and writing skills for firefighters will be essential to the survival of the fire service.
There’s an old saying: You eat an elephant one bite at a time. The same logic applies to wooly mammoths, because that best describes the subject of physical fitness within the fire service.