An organizational structure defines the relationships between employees, department supervisors and upper management. A well-defined organizational structure enables workers at all levels to reach ...

I started my career in the fire service in 1985. At the conclusion of my first full week, I was participating in an acquired structure burn. The burn was a local coordinated event with instructors ...

Especially in today's post-9/11 world where every person who thinks they have a training product to sell, it's important to evaluate the training you're purchasing or providing. Many of those, ah, ...

CONCORD — Dark smoke billowed from Door 5 on the second floor, attacking the air outside like a wave crashing during high tide. Adjacent to it, a few feet away, smoke far less dark oozed from a window ...

A discussion about training facility buildings recently surfaced in a most unusual way. A close friend, who’s also a local building official, called to discuss fire training centers. This was a bit ...

A new structure to train firefighters from throughout western Massachusetts to save lives has been erected at the Department of Fire Services’ Springfield academy. The two-story building, referred to ...

We have all read and heard a great deal recently about the issues surrounding the use of live fire at locations other than established, regulated and properly designed training facilities. It is ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) – For more than three days this week, fire stations in Rapid City were stepping into a live structure fire training simulation to get ready for the upcoming colder weather.

The recent death of an apprentice firefighter in Baltimore, Maryland (Linskey, 2007b) during live fire training has many people asking questions. The preliminary investigation conducted by the ...