FA Volume 16 Issue 11

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Maintaining Your Fleet in a Down Economy

Maintaining Your Fleet in a Down Economy

The economy still has not recovered, and during 2012 fire departments across the United States will be asked to stretch their budgets. Nothing is untouched during these trying times, from personnel to apparatus replacement to preventive maintenance programs.
Station NewsThe Fire Station
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

We’re part of a bigger field I read “The Fire Industry Is Bigger Than You Think” by Sam Goldwater (Fire Industry Today, July 2011). It…
Fire ApparatusNews
The Changing Role of Distribution

The Changing Role of Distribution

During the course of daily business, many of us routinely navigate through a vast array of methods and administrative procedures necessary to investigate, specify, and acquire fire and emergency response equipment.
EquipmentNews
Apparatus Scene Safety for Emergency Roadway Incidents

Apparatus Scene Safety for Emergency Roadway Incidents

Safety doesn’t come naturally to firefighters. It’s against our nature. Firefighters tend to run toward danger and take extreme risks because it validates our bravery.
Fire Technology & Industry Innovation

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2012 Forecast

2012 Forecast

Predicting the future is never easy and probably best left to those who take the time to study the facts to make the best guess.
NewsStation NewsThe Fire Station
Buffalo (NY) Fire Department Chooses American LaFrance

Buffalo (NY) Fire Department Chooses American LaFrance

Standardization of its fleet is the mantra sounded at the Buffalo (NY) Fire Department in an effort to efficiently manage apparatus repairs and maintenance and provide seamless tactical platforms for firefighters.
Fire Apparatus
Safety and the Budget Ax

Safety and the Budget Ax

Recently the local news media in Kershaw, South Carolina, reported that two members of the Heath Springs (SC) Volunteer Fire Department and one member of the Kershaw (SC) Fire Department were inside a house with a buildup of smoke and haze when there was an explosion (possibly a backdraft) that engulfed the firefighters in flames.
EquipmentNews
Training Scars Potentially Fatal Wounds

Training Scars Potentially Fatal Wounds

Tragically, performing the difficult and dangerous work of firefighting often results in scars and sometimes fatal wounds.
Training
Apparatus/Equipment News

Apparatus/Equipment News

FireWhat iPhone app supplies firefighters with critical information about wildland fires across the nation. The app provides life-saving information for firefighters, responders, and residents of…
Fire ApparatusNews
Rear-Mount Pumpers Show Strength as Multiuse Vehicles

Rear-Mount Pumpers Show Strength as Multiuse Vehicles

Fire apparatus makers report that sales of rear-mount pumpers appear to be growing, relative to the overall number of pumpers sold by manufacturers annually. Manufacturers attribute this increase to three things—multiusability, staffing limitations, and size.
Fire ApparatusPumpers
PPE Makers Using Ergonomics in Designs for Firefighters

PPE Makers Using Ergonomics in Designs for Firefighters

When firefighters are using their personal protective equipment (PPE) on the fireground, the gear should be responsive and comfortable—not tight, restricting, or difficult to wear.
Firefighter PPE
In the News…

In the News…

• PIERCE MANUFACTURING has placed four Pierce® Saber® custom fire trucks into service with the Tucson (AZ) Fire Department. The department’s apparatus fleet of frontline…
Fire Apparatus

Apparatus Purchasing: Fiscal Alternatives

EquipmentNews

Union County (NJ) Drills Using Kidde Neptune System

Equipment

Fire Industry Outlook for 2012: Optimistic?

Fire Apparatus

Aerial Platforms Do a Little Bit of Everything

Fire ApparatusLadder Trucks

Purchasing an Ambulance for the Fire Service

AmbulancesFire Apparatus

Rescue Air

Equipment

Nonhydranted Area Leads to Unique Rig Design in Fort Lee, New Jersey

Fire Apparatus

Technology: Balance, Risk, and Benefit

Fire Apparatus

NFPA 1917, <em>Standard for Automotive Ambulances</em>, Part 2

AmbulancesFire ApparatusNews

Democrats at Work, Republicans at Home

Fire Apparatus

Apparatus/Equipment News

Fire Apparatus

Interior Firefighter Location Systems Being Refined

Fire Technology & Industry Innovation
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