Like many firefighters, I always look at buildings as though I were sizing them up for firefighting operations. One building construction technique that always intrigued me is the metal pitched roof.

Not all fires are fought on the ground and that's what Terre Haute Fire Department recruits Brendan McPike and Joe Phillips learned on Tuesday during ventilation training at a condemned ...

RFD Training Division – RFD Truck Company crews going through Ventilation over Fire Training. This training procedure gives our Truck Company members the experience needed to operate in low visibility ...

Reading the roof of a fire building starts as the apparatus nears the incident, including assessment of the roof's pitch and covering, of ventilation indicators, and of dead loads and structural ...

Today’s fires aren’t the same fires of 100 years ago, but we’re still using some of the same techniques to put them out. These techniques were intended for conventionally built structures with natural ...

MONTEREY — Glass from windows shattered and chainsaws fired up on Garden Road Monday as firefighters with the Monterey County Regional Fire District received a chance to conduct hands-on training at a ...

NIPOMO, Calif. -- CAL FIRE/San Luis Obispo County is holding a series of live fire drills in five old homes in Nipomo, which will all be burned down as part of the instructional training. "We have ...