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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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, ...