The ability to rapidly locate an activated PASS alarm is an individual skill that all of your firefighters can acquire through realistic scenario-based drills completed in the station.
“If you were able to choose the kind of brain injury you were to incur, it would be better in terms of the potential for recovery to have a stroke or a concussion in a motor vehicle accident than carbon monoxide poisoning.
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With all the talk around the fire service today about the knowledge and expertise the “old-heads” take with them when they retire, we thought it might be a good idea to pick their brains about little “tricks of the trade” they have learned throughout their careers.
ALAN SAULSBURY, of Fire Spec Services and formerly of Saulsbury Fire Apparatus, received the 2006 Joe Fishelson Award, presented annually for excellence in customer service to the fire protection industry.
The Fort Campbell (KY) Fire Department uses this DANKO unit as an ARFF vehicle at the local airport and to protect a wooded area at the rear used for helicopter response, according to Chief Michael R. Boyd.