Are Firefighting Tactics Changing?

It’s a warm summer day in 1985. You’re part of an engine company in New York City. Just before dinner, you get dispatched to a single family dwelling fire. On arrival, flames are pouring out of every window – a … Read More

Is a Smart Phone or iPad Useful for Initial Sizeups?

You’re the commander of a single engine company and you’re en route to a structure fire. It’s early in the morning and you’ve just completed relief as have all of the other companies in your battalion. Nobody has completed line … Read More

Type 3 Incident Management Teams and Technology

In August 2003, the US Fire Administration created a focus group that included fire and emergency services officers and experts (nationwide) to discuss and determine how to best implement Type 3 Incident Management Teams (IMTs). The focus group agreed to … Read More

Social Media Day

For anyone interested in learning to what extent social media may prove important, your day is coming. On June 30, 2012, <a href="http://mashable cialis 5mg filmtabletten preisvergleich.com/smday/” target=”_blank”>Social Media Day will be celebrated all over the world. Events, presentations, mashups, … Read More

Is Social Media Good for Fire Companies?

There’s no doubt that the use of social media for public relations and public distribution of information is a powerful tool. It’s a tool that a city government or first responders can use to their benefit. Evacuations, weather or traffic … Read More

The Free and the Fee

We’ve begun our initial Beta Testing for the first release of Command Journal. This version will be a FREE edition, available via the app store in iTunes. We’re really excited to get this new edition into your hands ASAP, but … Read More

Fire Departments and Gathering of Data: Part Two

As communities fight for emergency resources, budgets, and access to first responder performance data, it is becoming essential for fire departments and other first responder agencies to develop appropriate processes to not only develop accurate data, but to extract and … Read More

Starting to Understand the ICS Matrix

  As today’s first responder matrix becomes more complex, having a solid understanding of the Incident Command System (ICS) and how it is implemented via “best practices” is more important than ever before. The good news is that via cross … Read More

Are You a Natural?

<img class=" wp-image-192 aligncenter" title="fire-scene" src="http://pcnews cialis generika indien.rcomcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/fire-scene1.jpg” alt=”firefighters arrive at an auto fire” width=”800″ height=”323″ /> When your company arrives on-scene at an incident, within seconds, you as company commander will need to make a series of decisions. … Read More

Fire Departments and Gathering of Data: Part One

  Data collection is a sensitive issue when putting the fire service in front of politicians and the public. There is a lot of data out there, and while some of it is complete and useful, much of it leaves … Read More