Fire Department Management
The fire department management topic focuses on fire service leadership, from the high-level management issues facing fire chiefs to the administrative functions and budget issues that impact day-to-day operations.
Four common retention pitfalls, plus simple solutions for improving department culture and keeping firefighters happy
Developing a firefighter recruitment plan starts with getting real about why people aren’t joining the fire department
A simple way to teach new firefighters the basics of pump operations
The third-generation fire department member will step down after 22 years of service
“It’s still hard, you know, knowing that today is my last shift as of right now,” said rookie firefighter Josh Morgan
The recommendation for dispatching the closest unit could mean a radical change away from a system that historically has divided the county up into fire boxes
Fire Chief Alan Oakley, 48, was stabbed to death on Saturday and his wife and two other women were arrested for planning and carrying out the killing
A firefighter used the department’s equipment and personnel to surprise his fiance with an elaborate ruse
The new policy intends to limit publishing inappropriate, confidential or privileged information online
Township official: “We’re trying to get away from the ‘good-old boy’ system”
The notice of claim is a precursor to a lawsuit and charges fire agencies with negligence
The largest problem in the coming year is how departments deal with young firefighters
Although extreme, this ‘firefighter hazing’ should gives all reason to pause and examine how we bring recruits into the fire service culture
David Downey has 20 years on the department and intends to apply for the permanent position
Of all the stories to come out of 2013, these seem to best explain the current state of the fire service
The same level of job protection should be afforded volunteer firefighters deployed to disasters as military personnel get
Like cops, the new plan calls for medics to get to patients rapidly instead of waiting it out
The chance of pushing though a package to even out the full-time and part-time survivor benefits is in doubt
Fire chief credits having a four-person crew for making the save possible
The extraction process uses butane or other flammables to cook ‘pipe bombs’
The district won for its success in organizing and working across multiple communities
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said extending the injury coverage would impose “an undue burden” on municipalities before they have the opportunity to opt out of its provisions
The city’s first female firefighter said she was illegally fired after she set a fire in a bathtub amid a 2006 suicide attempt
An attorney for the 12 families said that the men’s deaths were preventable and the families want to ensure “this type of tragedy does not happen again”
Addressing these five broad issues should be a high priority for the volunteer fire service in the coming year
The WTC Registry was reopened and the deadline for joining is now extended to Sept. 11, 2014
Zane Wallace Peterson, 29, faces 25 years-to-life sentence for the murder charge and 90 years for the arson charges
No one was injured in the blaze, but a fire engine and an ambulance were destroyed
The case stems from a July 26 apartment fire, which investigators said he set because the woman he was living with wouldn’t buy him liquor
The money came from the sale of used fire equipment to other fire departments; about $25,000 passed through the fund over nine years
It’s still unknown why they decided to leave the department; sources say it stemmed from the handling of a personnel issue with another firefighter
Two males, 17 and 23, were arrested on arson and murder charges in a fire that killed Lt. David Jeffrey Little
Roderick Fraser said he leaves a better department than the one he found when he was hired in 2006, and says it was time for him to do something different
