FE Volume 164 Issue 7

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Silent Trumpets: When Leadership Fails

Silent Trumpets: When Leadership Fails

These words should influence us throughout every day we spend as officers. Each time we decide to act or not to act, regardless of whether we are on the fireground, in the firehouse, or in our office, these words should be ringing loud and true.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Bull in a China Shop

Bull in a China Shop

After extinguishing what seemed to be a simple room-and-contents fire, truck company members began to overhaul the fire room to check for extension. They needed to pull the ceilings because of the fire damage that penetrated the gypsum board, which covered the lath and plaster ceiling beneath it.
Fire Apparatus
COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS

COMPANY/ASSOCIATION NEWS

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION researchers in Boulder, Colorado, discovered that smoke from forest fires contains isocyanic acid, which can be harmful to human health. The research was conducted, in part, during last year's Fourmile Fire.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Names in the News

Names in the News

The National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) awarded GREGORY G. NOLL with the John M. Eversole Lifetime Achievement Award. Established in 2007, the John M. Eversole Lifetime Achievement Award annually recognizes a living individual who has had an exceptionally distinguished career in the field of hazardous materials emergency response.
HazmatTechnical Rescue

More FE Volume 164 Issue 7

(July 2011)

(July 2011)

I recently read on fireengineering.com “On Firefighter Training: Being Your Best Is Their Best Chance” by Brian Brush. It was a great article, and I forwarded it to all the fire personnel in our department.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Critical Fireground Factors List

Critical Fireground Factors List

Last month we started to describe how the initial and ongoing size-up is made up primarily of critical fireground factors. These critical factors together create an inventory of the tactical “vital signs” the incident commander (IC) uses to evaluate conditions, make decisions, and create safe and effective action.
Firefighting
Fire department/EMS AEDs recalled

Fire department/EMS AEDs recalled

At the end of April, Defibtech, LLC initiated a worldwide voluntary recall of certain DDU-100 series semiautomatic external defibrillators (AEDs) sold under the Lifeline AED and Revive® AED brand names. The recall includes 65,885 AEDs distributed in the United States, some to fire departments and EMS organizations.
Fire EMSFirefighting
The Ripple Effect of a Traffic Collision

The Ripple Effect of a Traffic Collision

Rarely does one stop to consider all the effects that follow a roadway crash and all the harm it can do to the driver, passengers, and other vehicles. This article takes a look at the cascading effect of a collision on the involved parties.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Private-Dwelling Fire Drill

Private-Dwelling Fire Drill

This fire is in a 1½-story private dwelling. The fire conditions are rapidly changing, and members operating inside the structure might not be aware of this fact because of the amount of smoke inside the building.
Firefighter DrillsFirefighter Training
Successful Fund Drives

Successful Fund Drives

Communities or their local governments should provide a local volunteer fire department with all of its operational needs through taxation. However, sometimes fire department fund-raise to pay for the little extras that make member life more enjoyable such as pizza, a few beers, softball shirts, a family picnic, benefits for a department's injured or seriously ill, and other good causes that build camaraderie.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting
Brown M&M’s

Brown M&M’s

There is an extremely well-known and respected deputy chief from the North Hudson, New Jersey, area. He is admired for his no-nonsense attitude on the fireground and for his unrelenting pursuit of fire service knowledge and excellence—hallmarks of his unwavering professionalism.
Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

FE Volume 164 Issue 7

Issues

(fireengineering.com)

Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

PRODUCTS/SERVICES/MEDIA

Firefighter ToolsFirefighting Equipment

APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Fire Apparatus

Meeting the Challenges of Mother Nature

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Professionalism in the Fire Service

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Creating an Officer Development Program

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

How to Build Department Morale

Fire Service CareerFirefighter Training

As a Young Company Officer Sees It

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Survivability Profiling: Applying What We’ve Learned

FirefightingStructural Firefighting

The Company Officer: Cultivating Reliable Team Members

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Mentoring: Perspectives of the Rookie and the Veteran

Fire Department LeadershipFirefighting

Flat-Roof Operations: From the Street to the Roof and Back

Fire Department LeadershipFirefightingMagazine