FE Volume 161 Issue 2

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NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

At the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions in November in Orlando, Florida, Tom P. Aufderheide, MD, professor of emergency medicine and director of the Resuscitation Research Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, reported on a study he conducted.
Firefighting
Response to Fires

Response to Fires

Question: Does your department respond all units dispatched to a reported structure fire Code 3 (lights and siren), or do you do something different? Why?
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Shiny Things, Blue Widgets, and Cool Gadgets

Shiny Things, Blue Widgets, and Cool Gadgets

We all seek that gadget that gives us an edge: an extrication tool, a new evolution, or a new methodology that will help us to see things in a different way or make patients more at ease while caring for them.
Technical RescueVehicle Extrication
Situation Awareness

Situation Awareness

As an old guy living in a brave (and nutty) new world, I struggle every day to somehow understand the never-ending parade of hot management topics as they go by.
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The Professor

The Professor

Commercial buildings usually come to mind when we think of steel as a structural member.
FirefightingStructural Firefighting
COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS

COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS

In the past two years, GEORGIA-PACIFIC, through the Georgia-Pacific Bucket Brigade™ program, has provided more than $200,000 in grants to fire departments across the country to help them meet their communities’ pressing needs for trained and equipped personnel and has donated hundreds of cases of paper products for department use.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Conference and Travel Spending

Conference and Travel Spending

Throughout the state of New York, some volunteer fire departments have drawn criticism and negative press from the state comptroller’s office for questionable conference spending.
Firefighting
Tabun Nerve Agents

Tabun Nerve Agents

The chemical warfare agents (CWA) known as nerve agents include tabun (GA), sarin (GB), soman (GD), and cyclosarin (GF), collectively known as the “G” series, and members of the “V” series, VX, VE, VG, VM, VR and Vx (V gas). The first of the “G” series I will discuss is tabun.
Technical Rescue
APPARATUS DELIVERIES: The Fort Madison, IA Fire & Rescue Department

APPARATUS DELIVERIES: The Fort Madison, IA Fire & Rescue Department

The Fort Madison (IA) Fire & Rescue Department replaced a 65-foot articulated elevating platform with this ALEXIS to obtain greater reach, explains backup driver Rob Blindt.
Fire Apparatus
All Bleeding Stops Eventually

All Bleeding Stops Eventually

While responding as an advanced life support (ALS) first-response engine company to an industrial accident, you remember the last time you went to this factory.
Fire EMSFirefighting
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to Chief Sydney Henry Jr., Elmsford (NY) Fire Department, for his article “Challenging Auto Extrication” (November 2007).
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Silver Bullets

Silver Bullets

I recently received a letter from a friend who accused me of having a “suppression mentality.
FirefightingMagazine

Every 15 Minutes

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Self-Directed Learning

Firefighter DrillsFirefighter Training

Extinguishing Chimney Fires

Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

Gridlocked: Poor Circulation Hurts Emergency Response

Firefighting

The Hazards of Modified Fire Apparatus and Extended Passenger Vans

Fire Apparatus

Proper Handling of Combustible Metal Fires

Firefighting

The Qualities of an Effective Engineer-Driver

Firefighting Equipment

Is Your Department Complying with the NFPA 1404 Air Management Policy?

Firefighting

Troubleshooting Pump Operations

Firefighting

Apparatus Specifications: Avoiding the Pitfalls

Fire Apparatus

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