Fire service training is entering a new era with the creation of NFPA 1400, a unified standard that merges seven existing firefighter training guidelines into one. This consolidation aims to improve ...

When a drill in the fire service is developed, the person who designs the training session faces numerous pressures: competing demands for time, the crew wants the drill to be engaging and job-related ...

Many departments are inundated with policies for how to operate at incidents, how to get there, how to train once you are there, what to do afterward, and everything in between. The material that ...

In an officer series class not long ago, the instructor asked the class for a list of hot topics in the fire service to begin discussion. A wide variety of topics were listed, ranging from ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Albany County is launching a Fire Service Academy Pilot Program. Officials said trainees will learn the basics of firefighting, gain valuable emergency readiness skills, ...

Multiple fire service and law enforcement agencies are conducting preparedness exercises in San Diego County this week for ...

Andrew Starnes explains that firefighters' presumption that their thermal imaging camera went into a white-out condition because of excessive temperature in the fireground ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will welcome 40 students Monday to its brand new firefighter training facility in Merced County as part of a multiyear push to bolster its ...

A new four-story Fire and Safety Training (FAST) tower has opened at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa. The $2.1 million facility provides realistic live-fire and other training for Iowa's fire departments ...

OFFICE. HER RESIGNATION IS EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY. THERE’S A BRAND NEW FIRE TRAINING TOWER IN CENTRAL IOWA. THE $2.1 MILLION FACILITY WAS UNVEILED TODAY AT CAMP DODGE IN JOHNSTON. OFFICIALS SAY THAT ...