Small-City Fire Department: Rockland, Maine
Chief Chris Whytock runs a department composed of both career and volunteer firefighters. They serve a city of just over 7,000, and face many of the same challenges small (or […]
Chief Interviews
Money vs. Innovation: Chief Mary Cameli, Mesa, Ariz. Fire & Medical Dept.
Like many other fire departments around the nation, Mesa Fire is seeing more calls for service at a time when the department is also watching its budget shrink. But Mesa […]
The EMS Question
Fire-based EMS has been common since the 1970s. The first civilian mobile medical units appeared in Europe in the 1960s In 1969, while serving as president of the Los Angeles […]
Scott Freitag, Chief, Central Arizona Fire & Medical Authority
Chief Scott Freitag began his emergency services career in 1993 as an EMT and Emergency Medical Dispatcher in St. Louis, MO. He attained his paramedic certification in 1994, and left […]
Eric Kriwer, Chief, Mayer Ariz. Fire Dept.
Eric Kriwer began his fire service career in 1988 serving in Fountain Hills, Arizona. During Kriwer’s 29-year career, he has served multiple positions in the fire service from firefighter, paramedic, […]
Dennis Light, Prescott Ariz. Fire Chief
Dennis Light took over the chief’s position at the Prescott Fire Department in 2014, less than a year after the deaths of 19 firefighters from the city’s Granite Mountain Interagency […]