It is another cold and windy night at 2am when the tone alert sounds. There is a report of a fire on the 12th floor of a high rise senior housing project in your district. As you pull up to the ...

Boston firefighters ran into trouble when they responded to a minor fire under a Red Line train at the MBTA’s Charles/MGH station on Thursday and found that they could not use a standpipe at the ...

USING thermal imaging cameras in addition to water from standpipes, firefighters extinguished a fire in a power-generating turbine that was protected by a sprinkler. Constructed of steel framing with ...

We have covered a lot of ground as it relates to hose-pack systems in the first two parts of this series. We now know that it’s not as simple as throwing 150 feet of 1 1/2-inch hose with a 95 gallon ...

Gustin has vast expertise in large building response to teach the best ways to use the structures standpipes when setting up attack hoselines. Bill Gustin is a 47-year veteran of the fire service and ...

Standpipe operations are some of the rarest operations for many firefighters. Yet, standpipe systems can be found in just about every fire department’s jurisdiction. Success during a standpipe ...

Firefighters were caught by surprise in July, when faulty equipment at the Charles/MGH station made it impossible to pump water upstairs to douse a fire on a Red Line train on elevated tracks. But a ...

Manistee firefighters refreshed their skills with fire hoses and a digital fire extinguisher training system sessions this week.