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EMERGENCY VEHICLE OPERATIONS
Friday, June 19, 2009 - In recent years there has been an escalation of responding fire apparatus crashing into each other and in the past few weeks it has even gotten worse. In this column we have always tried to be honest and fair taking on the hardest issues.&n... [ more ]

Rollover Prevention

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

New Truck Technology

NFPA 1901 requires apparatus ordered after January 1, 2009 to be equipped with a stability control system or pass a tilt table test. Additional advanced technologies are available on new truck specs, includi... [ more ]

Fire Apparatus Video Cameras
Monday, March 9, 2009 - The Bowling Green Fire Department has had video cameras mounted on three of its apparatus since 2000. Permanently mounting these devices was an idea born of the department’s continuing need for footage of runs to utilize in its E... [ more ]

Chief - I Have Just Been Charged in an Emergency Vehicle Accident
Monday, March 9, 2009 - In just one month those words were uttered three times, in three separate incidents and in three different states. Driver/Operators of fire apparatus are being charged criminally in an alarming number of cases. ... [ more ]

Custom vs. Commercial
Monday, March 9, 2009 - I receive many questions via email and phone and one of the most frequently asked questions do we buy a custom fire truck chassis or a commercial fire truck chassis. Why you might ask is this under the Emergency Vehicle column heading and not... [ more ]

Hey Loo - The Seatbelts Don't Work
Monday, March 9, 2009 - Now that I have your attention with that attention grabbing headline I hope you will continue to read. It is quite a bold headline and yet it is pretty true. Like all good stories we should probably start at the beginning. We turn the... [ more ]

I am an Agressive Driver

Monday, March 9, 2009

One of the things that I have learned over the last 15 years of interviewing, teaching and lecturing apparatus operators is that they did not do just one ... [ more ]

One Person Can Make a Difference - Happy 30th Birthday Firehouse Magazine
Monday, March 9, 2009 - This issue marks the 30th anniversary of Firehouse Magazine. It only seems appropriate that we go back in time and fine out how the Emergency Vehicle Operators Column got started and why the Emergency Vehicle Operators Column has withstood th... [ more ]

The Second National Firefighter Safety Standdown
Monday, March 9, 2009 - The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) has announced the nations second firefighter safety stand down. The stand down will start Wednesday, June 21, 2006 and will continue until all personnel and duty nights have been covered. more ]

The Aftermath of a Fatal Apparatus Wreck - Patti's Story

Monday, March 9, 2009

I have been assigned to a truck company for most of my career in the New York City Fire Department however in 1994 I took a detail to drive the Safety Operating Battalion for about a year. My time in the Safety Battalion was certainly an inte... [ more ]

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