Developing Tomorrow's Firefighters
In the line of duty, firefighters see and deal with a lot — all in addition to responding to emergencies and helping people. From the weird to the disheartening to the just plain strange, firefighters have seen it all. In
Firefighting has changed over time, and these changes have had an impact on the role of firefighters. In the past, firefighters were primarily responsible for extinguishing fires. However, today firefighters also play a vital role in fire prevention and education.
Do firefighters spray water from a fire hydrant directly onto a fire? And by the way, why are fire hydrants even necessary? Don’t fire trucks have huge tanks of water? FIRE HYDRANTS Fire hydrants are everywhere. Sometimes called fire plugs,
What’s the best technique to put out a fire with water? Unless you’re already trained as a firefighter, you would not be faulted if you hadn’t thought about this. Surely just spraying as much water as possible and as fast
Everyone knows what a fire truck is. However, technically speaking, if you’re in a conversation with a firefighter, and you point to a fire truck, he or she may tell you that’s actually a fire engine. So, what’s the difference?
According to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, “Fire Dynamics is the study of how chemistry, fire science, material science and the mechanical engineering disciplines of fluid mechanics and heat transfer interact to influence fire behavior. ” Stated
Hazard Materials represent substances — which may be natural or man-made — that are inherently dangerous or pose a safety hazard. Examples include materials which are explosive, poisonous, chemically active (including acids and other corrosives), radioactive, or biologically active (including
There are two general types of fire academies: 1) College Fire Academy for students interested in a career in the fire services. 2) Fire Academy for hired firefighters. Both may cover similar theory and skill-development but a hired firefighter does
The term “deluge” means “to overrun with water.” It’s a word associated with great floods in human history. So, it wouldn’t take much of an imagination to envision the purpose of a “deluge gun” in the fire service. A deluge
If you’ve been held up in a traffic jam due to a car accident blocking all or part of the road up ahead, there’s a possibility that emergency rescue personnel may require powered rescue tools to access crash victims before