The dangers of battling a blaze from the roof of a burning structure were made clear Sunday when a veteran firefighter in Fresno, Calif., was critically injured after he fell into an inferno. Capt.

During an expo in San Diego on Wednesday, firefighters were learning from a near-miss accident from two years ago. The Firehouse World Expo was being held at the San Diego Convention Center from Feb.

Recently, there have been some high-profile incidents and fires where roof operations have been less than ideal during operations. It wouldn’t take one a very long time to research some of the more ...

It seems pretty simple, but one of the first steps in performing successful ventilation is having the appropriate tools to complete it. With the constant changes in building construction, ladder crews ...

"The Study of Coordinated Fire Attack Utilizing Acquired Structures,” a multi-year project that is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, ...