Friday, July 18, 2008
Forest Service Takes Bids for Air Tanker Contracts
The U.S. Forest Service was considering bids in March/April from companies that operate heavy air tankers for service in this year's wildland fire season....
Meetings Net Nightclub, Senior Strategies
The International Association of Fire Chiefs has released reports offering national strategies to improve two especially deadly life-safety problems in...
A Matter of Physics
A. K. Rosenhan
The laws of physics are unvarying, especially the law of gravity. If the physics facts conspire to cause a problem, it will indeed happen. The use of...
Metal on Metal
By Robert R. Rielage
An evaluation of metal roof-ladder hooks revealed their inability to remain stable on metal roofs....
Local Response Key to Cutting Wildfire Costs
The unprecedented level of funding for hazardous fuels reduction under the National Fire Plan is not going to be enough to mitigate costly wildland fires,...
FDNY Aids in San Diego Rebuild Efforts
Fourteen volunteers from New York City, including 11 FDNY firefighters from the Upper West Side of Manhattan, flew cross-country on the Sept. 11 anniversary...
Private Matter
By Timothy P. Butters
Last month, two train cars derailed and overturned in a Georgia rail yard, one spilling its cargo of styrene into a nearby dike. Styrene is a flammable...
Collapse CD, DVD Released
By Douglas Page
Roof collapses are always a concern to firefighters during structure fires, and a government multimedia blitz is addressing the issue. A new CD-ROM and...
DC-4s Remain Off Contract
Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth and Bureau of Land Management Director Kathleen Clarke announced that three DC-4 large air tankers would not be returning...
Bay State House Tackles Nightclub Fires
On Aug. 17, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law the state's most far-reaching fire safety legislation since the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942,...
Break-Even Point
David Calkin, Ph.D., EconomistRocky Mountain Research Station Missoula, Mont. Kevin Hyde, Landscape
Some departments argue that the training needed for ICS is beyond their means. That is just one misconception that prohibits departments from implementing the system....
Feds Return 2 Large Air Tankers to Service
The departments of the Interior and Agriculture announced they will return two P2V aircraft to firefighting service on a limited basis. Both aircraft...
Room & Board
By Tom Horton
The fastest-growing population sector in the United States is that of people between the ages of 65 and 74 years old. This group is projected to grow...
All Fall Down
By Patrick Kenney
On Jan. 28 at 23:41 hours, the Hinsdale (Ill.) Fire Department responded to the report of a house fire in a building under construction. Police officers...
Double-Wide Dilemma
By Donald L. Loeb
Over the past two decades, I have written on tactics for house fires in the 1-, 1H-, 2- and 2H-story frame dwelling because I believe that we, as a national...
Study Challenges Fire Management Tactics
By Douglas Page
Last year's devastating fires ignited new research challenging the assumptions for managing arid, fire-prone regions. Natural fires, such as those found...
Circuit Training
By Michael A. Santilli
Firefighters know very little about electricity, but they must deal with its harms on a daily basis. To handle electrical incidents safely, they must...
Making the Rounds
By Donald L. Loeb
Are you in a fire department that's fortunate enough to be fully staffed with both firefighters and officers? Then these words will not be to your benefit....
Alarm Sounds for Evacuation Research
By Douglas Page
Two new studies illustrate the urgency of developing better building evacuation schemes following the World Trade Center attack and The Station nightclub...
Pipeline Preplans Improve Info Flow
[ JOHN LINSTROM ]
Beginning in 1859 when the first commercial oil well in Titusville, Pa., was completed, pipelines have been used to transport crude oil from the wells...
Time Lapsed
By Pat Dale
Time is critical at an incident. Most firefighter deaths on the fireground happen within the first 30 minutes of arrival. This doesn't suggest that crews...
Ohio County Unifies RIT Program
The Warren County Fire Chiefs Association, which includes 15 fire departments north of Cincinnati, recently completed rapid intervention team training...
Western Officials Adopt Extreme Fire Policy
Instead of waiting for wildfires to explode in drought-weakened forests, Western U.S. forest officials pounded small fires with extra resources in July....
NIOSH Reports on Rollover, Collapse Deaths
The NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program recently issued reports on a New Mexico assistant chief's death in a tanker rollover...
Torched Porches
By Donald Loeb
Porches are a covered approach to a doorway, which makes sense until you look at the older wood-frame dwellings that had porches of all sizes and at all...
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