If you might be wondering what the next generation of fire helmets will look like, here you go!

Started by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd in Tools of the Pros: Equipment & Product DiscussionLatest Reply

Passing of FFN Member Lou Angeli

A personal loss to the FFN community, Lou Angeli passed away this weekend. Lou was a firefighter/EMT, instructor and renowned videographer.…

Started by FFN WebTeam in General Firefighting & Rescue DiscussionLatest Reply

Fire Behavior

I'm confused, maybe somebody can help explain this.  When I took my level 1 (recently) we were told roof ventilation would not increase fir…

Started by steve hutchinson in General Firefighting & Rescue DiscussionLatest Reply

Laddering Discussion: First Truck at Garden Apartment Fire

Laddering discussion from one of our many Fire and EMS blogs, Holding 1&1 You are the driver of the single ladder company dispatched…

Started by FFN WebTeam in Fireground Tactics & Firefighter SafetyLatest Reply

Fire in the ‘High End’

Photo size-up discussion from our blogger First Due Questions   Your company is dispatched to the report of smoke in the more upscale resid…

Started by FFN WebTeam in Fireground Tactics & Firefighter SafetyLatest Reply

Discipline Policy

Folks...I am attempting to back a position which would require a disciplinary action to be removed from an employee's file following a give…

Started by Bill Brown in The Fire's Out - Non Duty ForumsLatest Reply

UL Attic Fire Research

Live fire testing begins in the research of attic fires. Photo courtesy of UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute on Facebook.   Video be…

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Laptops For Apparatus

Question...We have a laptop in our engine for mapping, and connected to dispatch via CAD...Current laptop is 3 years old, and is now DOA...…

Started by Ty Rowan in General Firefighting & Rescue DiscussionLatest Reply

Can a 2 1/2" hose be used as a hand line for fire attack?

When I first started in the fire department we had two types of hand lines 1 1/2" and 2 1/2". We were taught that when you attack a fire th…

Started by Captain Kevin C. Ross in General Firefighting & Rescue DiscussionLatest Reply

The Greatest Risk, Taking No Risk At All

This is just to mix things up from all of the safety talk on here.  Of course you want to be safe, but the only topics discussed now are ab…

Started by capcityff in General Firefighting & Rescue DiscussionLatest Reply