Recent Articles
Posted By: Jack Sullivan, CSP, CFPS
Wed Apr 8th, 2020
Everyone in the country is preoccupied with issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Firefighters,EMTs and other emergency personnel are concerned about their potential exposure to the virus as theygo about providing essential emergency services for the citizens in their service area. Each day bring
Posted By: Demond Simmons
Wed Aug 14th, 2019
Firefighter safety and competency is predicated on many important factors—proper equipment, relevant resources, proper staffing levels, cognitive acquisition, and sufficient psychomotor/hands on training to master the abundance of task level skills firefighters are required to perform for successful
Posted By: Bruce E Bjorge
Wed Jul 17th, 2019
Firefighter training is conducted a lot of different ways, depending on where you serve and who’s coordinating your training. It can also vary widely depending on whether you are participating in company-level training, multi-company training, or attending a local, regional, state or national confer
Posted By: Brett Tompkins, Company Officer
Tue May 14th, 2019
I love Power Point. So much, that my guys would come up with a great class idea and I would tell them to come back to me when they had a Power Point presentation. I would hear the groans when I told them we had a 150 slide EMS presentation on “The Cell and the Cellular Environment.” But I thought
Posted By: Andrew Beck
Tue Mar 12th, 2019
Live fire evolutions are an essential component of our training arsenal. Live firefighting allows us to work with new firefighters even while we see fewer structure fires each year. This training is also essential to adapt to the various changes in tactics with the modern fire environment.
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