Washington, DC – The IAFF has announced it is taking important steps in the prevention of suicide in the fire service. The IAFF is training members to recognize warning signs, ask direct questions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

To stay relevant, firefighters must see themselves as career-long students. Learning should not stop at graduation from the recruit academy; instead, graduation marks the beginning of a firefighter’s ...

Robert Moran tells fire chiefs that it's their responsibility to begin thinking about who will succeed them early in their ...

The new building at Bates Technical College will take the place of a commercial truck driving lot, and will feature a live fire training structure, drill yards and a mock fire station. Bates Technical ...