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The fire service is constantly evolving, and the rope rescue arena is no exception. At most departments, the training provided is based on the department's desired skill level for its [...]

WHOOSH! A flaming chunk of wood crashes at your feet. It splinters into tiny pieces. You cover the red-hot embers with soil to put out the flames. You're a firefighter, [...]

On Saturday, April 13, 2013, a three-alarm fire destroyed the Liberian Water Side Market in downtown Darby. The fire required the resources of 31 fire departments from Delaware, Montgomery and [...]

Fire and police investigators team up to solve 13 million crime As Engine 32 rolled out of the Pullman, WA, Fire Department's north-area station on Sunday, July 14, 2013, Senior [...]

A fire in Seaside Park, NJ, in September 2013 that originated under a section of boardwalk spread to four blocks of commercial buildings that housed more than 50 businesses. The [...]

On Dec. 21, 2011, the Elizabeth, NJ, Fire Department was challenged with a stubborn fire in a large warehouse that required the response of more than 55 fire units from [...]

On Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, a three-alarm fire destroyed the Majestic Condominiums on the shore of Table Rock Lake near Branson, MO. Despite strong winds, inadequate water and a shortage [...]

Firehouse HEROISM & Community Service Awards We are pleased to announce the newest honorees in our Firehouse® Magazine Heroism & Community Service Awards program and take pride in highlighting the [...]

At 12:48 A.M. on Sunday, July 13, 2010, lightning struck an 80-foot-diameter above-ground bulk storage tank at the Colonial Pipeline Co. facility in Greensboro, NC. Tank 819 was a 'floating [...]

On Feb. 20, 2003, the nation's fourth-deadliest nightclub fire occurred in the Town of West Warwick, RI, killing 100 people and injuring nearly 300. The emotional impact on the responding [...]

In December 1998, three New York City firefighters were making their way along a corridor to reach a burning apartment on the top floor of a Brooklyn building. The occupant [...]

It was a Tuesday afternoon on January 12, 2010, and while most of the school kids in the U.S. were getting ready to end their day, students in Haiti were [...]

Firefighters conducting search-and-rescue assignments in a residential occupancy must carry hand tools to facilitate tactical objectives in order to achieve success safely and quickly. In fact, all firefighters on the [...]

With apologies to the legacy of the late, great Professor Frank Brannigan, do not fear trusses. Trusses are not geometric predators that hunger for firefighter prey. Trusses are not aware; [...]

The small Montana city of Bozeman was rocked on a wintry Thursday morning, March 5, 2009, by a natural gas-fueled explosion and fire that left one woman dead and leveled [...]

Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1959, started out like many other summer days in the Kansas City metropolitan area, sunny with temperatures in the 90s and a south wind of 13 mph. [...]

It was March 4th, 2009 when Miles City, MT, Firefighter/EMTs Branden Stevens and Justin Russell heard the call; they were not on duty, but happened to be at the station. [...]

Flooding incidents have been and will continue to be a topic of much discussion by many agencies until such time that the government make a final decision on whether the [...]

Two National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) fatality investigation reports, 98-FO7 and F2004-14, involve firefighters advancing into obscured-visibility, low-heat conditions. In both cases, as they began their advance, [...]

Your local high school football quarterback can call a play and 11 young athletes know where to go and what to do. Wouldn't it be great if you could call [...]

The Jacksonville, FL, Fire Department is the home of the first hazardous materials response team organized in the United States. The team became operational in January 1977 with a group [...]

Fires continue to burn at a steady pace in New Orleans. Each night during a recent three-week period, the Rescue and Flying Manpower Squads responded to fires at around 10 [...]

Since adjustments to fireground operating procedures are required when using compressed air foam systems (CAFS), they generate much informal discussion and debate among firefighters on the apparatus room floor. One [...]

The City of Orlando Fire Department has been providing fire and rescue service to citizens and visitors in Orlando since 1885. Organized firefighting in Orlando began in the early 1880s [...]

EAST BOSTON, MA -- Each day at Logan International Airport begins with roll call and then an airport community meeting known simply as 'the 8:30.' According to Chief Robert Donahue [...]

Like most of my fellow officers, I love the challenge of arriving first-due at a fire. Nothing gets me going like pulling up on a building with flames and heavy [...]

Earthquakes are often described as thunderous and frightening, like the sound of an approaching locomotive if you are standing in the middle of the tracks. The ground not only moves [...]

Here's the plan: None of your fireground operations will become the subject of a firefighter-fatality investigation report. If this plan is acceptable, you will appreciate this article, which introduces you [...]

AMERICAN LAFRANCE The Bay Ridge Volunteer Fire Company in Lake George, NY, has taken delivery of an American LaFrance pumper-tanker built on an ALF Eagle chassis. The unit features a [...]

Firefighters work hard. They save people and pets from tire. Safety Firefighters Teach Us to Stay Safe Know Two Ways Out Know two ways out of each room in your [...]

Hi, my name is Hannah. Meet my dad, Paul. He is a firefighter in Connecticut. We spent a day together at his firehouse. A Day With a Firefighter My dad [...]

i dropped dead on Friday, Oct. 29, 2004, at approximately 1409 hours while working as the incident commander at an apartment fire in West Seattle. Only by the grace of [...]

Soldiers know it. So do police officers. And paramedics. What is it? The smell of death. There's nothing else like it. And it's the hardest thing to deal with, especially [...]

The efforts of firefighters to smother the spotfire in Yokon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in September 2004 are described.

assuming that your radio batteries are charged, your communication hardware works and your dispatchers are in the loop, I guarantee that this series of articles will improve your fireground communication. [...]

It was unusually wet and foggy at milepost 332 on Interstate 80 in Wyoming on Aug. 19, 2004. Not one member of the Laramie Fire Department (LFD) was surprised when [...]

Firefighters Go to School Some men and women go to special classes to learn how to become fighters. Those men and women learn how to save people during a fire. [...]

Why did Amish parents try to dissuade their unmarried daughters from taking part in fire bucket brigades? Why is the Maltese cross a firefighting symbol? Who designed the traditional fire [...]

Last month, we began reporting on an incident in which a fire chief arrived at a house fire with people trapped before the first apparatus could reach the scene. He [...]

SAFETY NEWS Smoke Alarms Help Fight Fires [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A smoke alarm makes a loud noise. It goes off if there is smoke or a fire. Then people know to [...]