Chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team were in Lee County, Alabama, recently, offering emotional and spiritual care to residents. One particular young resident

Welcome back to the South Carolina Bureau of EMS and Trauma contribution area of this edition of Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Magazine. As we go

On June 22 of this year, the scene across the grounds of the N.C. Transportation Museum will prove the truth of a single, indisputable fact.

If you are at all similar to me, then you might be at your saturation point with active shooter articles. I have been so inundated

Download the Crossword PDF ACROSS 6  Gamma radiation is not particulate in nature but rather travels as a _______ much like x-rays 8  All gases

If you ask the majority of firefighters out there, they will tell you without a doubt that they did not join the fire service to

I ran across an article that stated that three-quarters of active emergency responders nationwide are overweight or obese. Cardiovascular disease is the third leading cause

As emergency responders, we are all familiar, or should be, with the need for assigning a Safety Officer at all incident scenes. In the context

This report is based on my visit to the Northland Fire Protection District encompassing the towns of Oaks Village, Laverna, Noghes and Upton stations. Additionally,

The competitive world we live in today is full of constant demands and the social requirement to stay in touch with one another through various

Department Name: Hemby Bridge County: Union Type Department: Combination ISO: 4/9E Number of Stations: 1 Number of Apparatus: Pumpers: 3 Aerials: 1 Specialty: 1 Do

Department Name: Horry County Fire Rescue EMS County: Horry Type Department: Combination – Fire Rescue EMS Structure: Combination career-volunteer ISO: 3 Number of Stations: 40​

With the increased incidence of terrorist threats and attacks around the country, we have seen a major emphasis placed on properly equipping fire stations and

(Editor’s Note: We’re glad to have David Pease writing for us again. He will be writing on different subjects and adventures. He was missed.) In 2016

Credibility refers to the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source. In the modern fire service credibility has two critical components that

Prior columns have discussed the critical state of the opioid crisis and the EMS use of Naloxone and other harmful reduction strategies. Unfortunately, the opioid

If you follow my column at all, you will recognize that I often use aviation investigations as a reference. I believe that the Crew Resource

During your years in the rescue service, have you ever had to get a single or double sheave pulley system elevated and secured above the

As the father of a, gulp, young daughter who is a few years from becoming a teenager, I try to maintain a knowledge of the

A popular adage in Washington, DC is, “The President proposes, the Congress disposes.” Last week, the President proposed his Fiscal Year 2020 budget outlining the

As a volunteer chaplain for my local fire department, I was having a professionally made picture taken for a special event when the photographer asked

Imagine if you will, receiving a call for an injured person two miles from a main road who has fallen off of a water fall.

In every age, wherever people have built communities, the danger of fire has been ever present. Across America, as land becomes towns and towns become

“We will never forget.” A simple statement conveying an active and perpetual choice to remember those lost, has become an anthem in the public safety

Now that I have your attention, most of us in the extrication world has heard at some point these words “Never move a vehicle during