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Many articles have been written about the differences in each of the three current generations serving in the fire service: Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials. While some from the Greatest Generation continue to serve, soon enough the next generation, Gen Z, will enter our workforce. It is helpful to ...

How do fire departments that rely on mutual aid for their initial or reinforced response to fires and other emergencies ensure success? One answer should be that they train with those other departments. The ISO Fire Suppression Rating Schedule requires such training in order to achieve maximum credit ...

Many articles have been written about the differences in each of the three current generations in today’s fire service: Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials. While some from the Greatest Generation continue to serve, soon enough the next generation, Gen Z, will enter our workforce. It is helpful to know ...

SLICE-RS, DICE-RS and RECEO-VS – all of the sudden we have two new fire service tactical acronyms out there to challenge RECEO-VS. Some will say we have no reason to change. Which one is correct, which one isn’t? Personally while I am a fan of SLICE-RS, and practice it in my own fire department, ...