Featured Blog Posts – April 2010 Archive (45)

Feeling Like I Just Drove Back Into My Old Neighborhood

The other day I flipped over to FFN and realized, I didn't know why, but I haven't really posted anything on FFN lately. I see a lot of the same names and many, many new ones, but it's so hard to be here and everywhere else, so unfortunately, I miss a lot of what is going on over here.

However, given some of the heated rhetoric I have seen, I wanted to forward something that was shared with me (Paraphrased from Dhammavadaka):

"Remember always that you are just a visitor… Continue

Added by Mick Mayers on April 7, 2010 at 5:49pm — No Comments

Know Your Emergency Vehicle

Inside the Apparatus Industry

Know Your Emergency Vehicle: We can learn valuable lessons from the tragic death of a Boston fire lieutenant

By Bob Vaccaro

I’m sure most of you have been following the news related to the death of a Boston Fire Department lieutenant who was a passenger in a ladder truck that slammed into a building last year.

A long report put together by an outside consulting firm stated that the department had a poor maintenance… Continue

Added by Fire Rescue Magazine on April 7, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Household Hazmat - Not In My Back Yard

From this weekend at All Hazard Contemplations

In the world of preventing the occurance of harmful incidents, the fire-rescue community has few peers and often excels. Innovative ways to prevent and reduce harm have included smoke detector programs, fire…

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Added by Ben Waller on April 4, 2010 at 8:26pm — 5 Comments

NVFC, FDNY & Virginia Fire Chiefs Association Receive Paul Sarbanes Award

NVFC, FDNY and Virginia Fire Chiefs Association Receive Paul Sarbanes Award…

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Added by Fire Rescue Magazine on April 2, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Natural Disasters: Are we prepared to respond anywhere, any time?

FireRescue magazine's Technical Rescue Web column

Natural Disasters: Are we prepared to respond anywhere, any time?

By Harold Schapelhouman

The recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Japan and Turkey have people understandably wondering what’s going on with our planet, as seismic activity seems to be at an all-time high in many regions of the world, and whether an area near them may be…