High-rise firefighting is a lot of work and can be dangerous in different ways. It’s important for you know as much as possible about these buildings’ design, construction and occupancy. […]
Go to enough conferences or read enough magazine articles and you’ll start to feel shamed if you don’t do a 360-degree recon on arrival at every fire. But the reality […]
There are a lot of cars on the road today that—just a few years ago – would have been considered exotic. One of the newest car types is the hydrogen […]
The difference between a “Mayday” situation and a “No Way Out” situation, says John Cagno, is that the former is not a firefighter’s fault and that latter is the result […]
There’s been lot said and written about leadership in the fire service, and some of it is pretty detailed. Great leadership can be one of those things that are hard […]
Lots of cities around the country have memorials to fallen firefighters, but I’m partial to the Arizona Fallen Firefighter Memorial, for obvious reasons. It’s a beautiful installation, on the Arizona […]
Is there a typical fire? Probably not. But there is a most-common fire: single-family residential fires add up to about three-quarters of all structure fires. In the National Incident Management […]
If you’re like most firefighters, when you go on vacation, you like to stop by firehouses and say hello, check out the apparatus, the gear… But sometimes, firefighters make the […]
It’s not well-known outside the fire service, but there’s a suicide crisis among firefighters. We’re now to the point that there are more suicides each year than line–of-duty deaths. In […]
If you have the feeling that what you eat may be slowing you down, our guest on this show may have a solution. It’s called the “Primal Blueprint,” and it […]