Curt Isakson explains why a supervising officer, an incident operations officer and, sometimes, a safety officer and a water supply officer are needed for the complexity that ...
No element of response to fires and other incidents is more important to fire department leadership, incident commanders (ICs) and municipalities than the safety of their firefighters. Evidence of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 24—Four Sauk Valley fire departments are taking part in Calm the Chaos fireground command training as part of an ongoing ...
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will welcome 40 students Monday to its brand new firefighter training facility in Merced County as part of a multiyear push to bolster its ...
Climate change is putting a growing number of people at risk of wildfire in the Great Plains and the Western U.S. The number of firefighters and fire management professionals has not kept up with that ...
In the fire service, few topics spark as much debate as the tension between aggressive and safety-driven cultures. On one hand, aggression on the fireground is seen as the hallmark of an effective ...
ANSBACH, Germany — German soldiers assigned to a helicopter regiment completed annual training July 8 at the IMCOM-Europe Fire Training Center, located at the U.S. Army Garrison here. Jonas Urschel, ...