As the fire chief or the head of a division, you are responsible for all the services provided within your domain even though you may not directly provide them.
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● ADELPHI UNIVERSITY received a donation to create a 9/11 Memorial Endowment Scholarship in memory of and in tribute to those in the fire service who gave their lives in the line of duty on September 11, 2001.
On August 25, 2005, at 12:40 p.m., the Wyckoff (NJ) Fire Department was dispatched to assist at the scene of a serious motor vehicle accident on Route 208 North in Wyckoff, New Jersey.
We have been talking (at least I was), about those tactics, tasks, and procedures that occur on most well-trained operations that support aggressive structure firefighting.
Let’s consider cutting evolu- tions. What kind of vehicle components do we have to sever today, and what tools and operations do we use? More important, how effective are these operations today? With the new materials and construction used in contemporary vehicles, we must reevaluate our tools and look at the evolutions we have learned in a new light (photo 1).
The collapse of the World Trade Center’s (WTC) Twin Towers killed almost all of the 343 members of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) who died and a large percentage of the other 2,477 casualties.
In his Letter to the Editor (October 2005), John H. Busching, of the Fire Department of New York’s (NYPD) Emergency Service Unit’s (ESU) Specialized Training School, expressed his displeasure with comments made in the Editor’s Opinion (Fire Engineering, June 2005) and my article “Helicopter Operations for High-Rise Emergencies” (June 2003).