Gasoline spills are frequent, and firefighters often underestimate the dangers. In short, you can get burned the day of the incident or get cancer twenty years after the event. Check out this near miss where important PPE was missing during a fuel leak due to the assumption that Gasoline has no adverse health effects.

A mayday or Rapid Intervention Team deployment can already cause command and control issues on any scene. Add in the complexity of a unified command at a mutual aid event, and the stakes grow even higher. During this event, a Battalion Chief and an Engine Company respond to a mutual aid incident to assist with an attic fire.

Behavioral Health is a topic that the fire service continues to embrace and organizations such as the IAFC and the IAFF make it a priority to assist and support those people in the fire service suffering from these issues that can lead to other disorders such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), or Post Traumatic Stress (PTS). This report details how a reasonably routine training evolution can trigger symptoms consistent with PTSD, or PTS.

Responding to a single-story residential structure fire with smoke showing from the alpha side, crews experienced a sudden increase in fire conditions.  Learn what happened and find out more information on Positive Pressure Attack and how Underwriter's Laboratory can help you learn more about this tactic.