Had to work last night. The Monroeville Fire Department was dispatched to my own neighborhood for a elderly gentlemen who had wandered away from home. Temperatures were in the the single digits, as is most of the east coast right now.

Fire and EMS personnel from the 5 local departments, plus some mutual aid units (not sure who all was called in), searched the neighborhoods and woods for nearly 3 1/2 hours. I have to admit that, given the temps, I did not think an elderly…

So....at the risk of over-simplifying the FIREFIGHTER SURVIVAL issue...

...here are 12 thoughts that might just work:



1-If we recruit, hire and promote the best possible people with strict and tough hiring standards and very tough and…

I use upoc, first alert network, and incident paging system to monitor emergnecy incidents in Western PA.

Feel free to notify me of any working incidents that you are aware of. If I am avaialble and can get there quickly enough, I will respond and take some photos of the incident. Understand that many FD's now carry camera's on their rigs. However, when the beast is raging, your crews have work to do. Let me and my cameras document your work.