Finding and selecting the best people to become firefighters is key to a department’s capability to deliver outstanding performance. Lack of firefighter training is a roadblock to department ...

Some local township fire departments are facing a lack of volunteer firefighters, a trend that’s been seen nationwide. In Pleasant Twp., its membership has dropped nearly in half in a little more than ...

Volunteer firefighters learn how to protect property during calls by pulling a tarp over a plastic table and chairs during a training session last year at the Ohio Fire Academy in Reynoldsburg. At 83, ...

Texas will require career firefighters to complete recurring safety training every five years under a new statewide standard ...

Curt Varone provides the means for fire department administrators to constructively and proportionately intervene before a ...

Equipment failures and lack of training led to the deaths of two Baltimore City firefighters in an October 2023 blaze in several rowhomes on Linden Heights Avenue in Woodmere, according to a 300-page ...

The Baltimore City Fire Department dealt with staffing shortages, aging equipment, and outdated training during a 2023 fire that killed two firefighters, a new report shows. The report, released ...