Last month I began a DISCUSsion on the dynamics of fire service change. I may have sounded a bit cynical in my description of how Engine One (where I was assigned for 10 years) reacts to organizational change.
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In the past few years, my department has had the misfortune of being involved in several Mayday situations, resulting in the death of one firefighter and injuries to four firefighters.
The INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS (IAFF) and the U.S. FIRE ADMINISTRATION (USFA) have released a new manual, Voice Radio Communications Guide for the Fire Service, to provide updated information on communications technology and discuss critical homeland security issues and concepts that did not exist when the original manual was first published in 1996.
On a sunny afternoon this past October, the Clyde (OH) Fire Department received an alarm for a commercial fire at an automobile parts manufacturing plant.
A properly trained and equipped two-person interior team of a truck company can perform multiple fireground tasks that aid in life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation.
The Bayou Cane Fire Protection District in Houma, Louisiana, uses this FERRARA quint as a first-response ladder in its district, which has a concentration of commercial and retail businesses and schools, explains Chief Jerry Gautreaux.