Firefighter Safety & Health

Here is a simple question for you. Does your rescue truck or the truck that carries the extrication equipment have N95 masks? If it does not, it should.

You just cannot make this stuff up! Allen Park to lay off entire Fire Department. That's right the entire department except for the Chief. Just in case you are wondering, Allen Park is small city just outside of Detorit with a size of 7 square miles. The best part of the whole story, is city officals do not have a backup plan to provide fire service!

Engine 1 of the Los Angeles Fire Department found a 2000 Chevy Impala fully involved on arrival and attacked with a 1-and-a-half-inch line but had problems containing it.

Anybody who has researched extrication online or in magazines has most certainly ran across an article or technique that Randy Schmitz from the Calgary Fire Department has written. Randy was in search of an extrication glove that truly meet all ...

General Motors (GM) has set a new bench mark for US automakers and all foreign automaker.  General Motors has been very proactive with training First Responders on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt.  There is an awareness training program that is visiting ...

I’m kind of putting a gift idea out there for my wife and maybe some others as well. Believe it or not, she sometimes jumps onto my blog to see what was so important that I didn’t make it to ...

The 2011 Nissan Leaf or “LEAF” as an acronym for Leading, Environmentally friendly, Affordable, Family car is an electric car packed full of batteries.  The LEAF is a compact five-door hatchback produced by Nissan.  The LEAF also falls into several car ...