Firefighters are often faced with dangerous situations. Our “playing field” has certainly changed and we have to keep coming up with ways to do our job and yet survive. Quite frankly not surviving means that someone else down the ...

My brother gave me an early Christmas present the other day in the form of the above book. “Capitol City Fireman” tells the adventures of Jake Rixner a retired Lt. from the City of Richmond Va. If you have been ...

  Thursday is officially the beginning of the holiday season, and everyone is getting busy. Tomorrow some of the world will be sitting down and eating Thanksgiving dinner with their families, with not a care in the world. However in ...

                How many fires must we go to before we start to educate ourselves on what a difference the use of 2 ½ inch hose line will make at a fire????   This morning my department responded to a house fire ...

The video in this post is a good example of not paying attention to the color of the smoke but rather its density and velocity. You will see in the video (and could probably tell if you have been reading ...

This post http://www.fireservicewarrior.com/2010/11/fantasy-world-of-firefighting.html comes to us from Fire Service Warrior Blog. It is detailing what he considers a fantasy world of firefighting where rules, and procedures are keeping us from doing our job effectively. He even uses humours comparisons to the ...

The past couple of days have been really exciting at work. we have been training a lot on our fall training scenarios, basically pulling lines, forcing doors, going over friction loss calculations, etc. We have also had a few significant calls that ...

http://www.firefighternation.com/forum/topics/children-discovered-padlocked This story comes to us from South Carolina. A fire broke out in a mobile home and the mother had padlocked the door while she took her husband to work (I am assuming for some sort of added security). While ...

This video was put together by the firefighters from the City of Cincinnati Ohio. They are once again facing sever lay offs that threaten to cut the current work force in half. Over at Firegeezer http://firegeezer.com/2010/11/09/a-rough-road-ahead/ they have a lot more info. This ...

As it gets colder and colder outside we as firefighters have to adjust out operations in order to meet the needs of our customers. I plan on doing a couple of these focusing on different things. This first post is ...