NIOSH posted a Safety Advisory on May 8 that warns all fire departments that use aerial ladder trucks with locking (pin-anchored, lever actuated, clamped) waterways to take immediate action to reduce ...

This is a question often asked of firefighters regarding their preferred role on the fireground. Though a fun debate, there are many departments that do not have the luxury of dedicated truck ...

Tom Shand explains why an apparatus committee must add vertical and horizontal reach to the vehicle dimensions that are considered when the group begins to prepare its specifications for the ...

Zachary Brown instructs on how to vertically ventilate a steeply pitched roof from an aerial, from one roof ladder and from two roof ladders. In the process of carrying out a Milwaukee cut, a ...