Firehouse Magazine

On Friday, May 7, 2010, a “once-in-a-career fire” destroyed a vacant, 87-year-old furniture factory, a 99-year-old vacant warehouse and an occupied manufacturing plant and offices in downtown...

In the weeks after 9/11, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority) hired Voorsanger Associates, an architectural consulting firm, to walk through the site during the cleanup...

We have all seen the images across the news: pictures of rescuers and support personnel carrying victims, both lifeless and animated, from the rubble piles of natural disasters, such as earthquakes...

AS WE APPROACH THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the terror attacks that occurred on 9/11/01, many of the FDNY firefighters I have talked to recently expressed their feelings about that day. Some of the...

Fire department culture is surprisingly similar from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, state to state, and even country to country. Part of that similarity in culture comes from our perception of...

Like many people, I do a lot of reading, especially on airplanes, where I seem to spend way too much of my time. I read not only about fire service and homeland security issues, but also about...

The first three installments in this series, beginning in January 2011, talked about preliminary items that must be understood to have a successful rapid intervention team (RIT) on the fireground...

In my August column, I talked about the importance of organizational values. Most fire departments have gone to great lengths to define their mission, vision and core values. Some departments will...

Junior Firefighters Earn an “A” ASAE, the Center for Association Leadership, has honored the National Volunteer Fire Council’s (NVFC) National Junior Firefighter Program with a 2011 Power of A...

PARIS, FRANCE: SEPT. 1, 1911 – Father Abbe Daney, a priest in the Landes region, near Bordeaux, saw local parishioners suffer the devastating loss of their 12-acre pine forest, so this...