Operational Medicine Alliance

Cancer in the Fire Service: Fact or Fiction?
Fire Chief
It's through the numerous exposures we have, whether it's on the fireground or during day-to-day operations. You can look at a daily activity at the ...

Grandad will do wheelchair race for charity
Swindon Advertiser
By Hayley Court » DISABLED grandad Paul Wilkinson is set to complete a wheelchair marathon this summer to raise money for research into his life limiting ...

FDNY aims to transform firefighter safety culture
FireRescue1
Chief Raynis told the summit its main functions are ensuring operational safety on the fireground and emergencies, investigate injures and fatalities of ...

Telling it Like it Is - March 2010
Firehouse.com
... while certainly smart enough to understand the concepts, also rationalizes the disregard of those same concepts when on the fireground. ...

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Blaze Destroys N.C. House
Firehouse.com
With no nearby hydrants, fire tenders were used to transport water to the fire ground. The residents were not home at the time, and firefighters were able ...

Baltimore City Fire Claims Three Lives
Examiner.com
“This threat significantly fuels and intensifies a fire making standard fire ground operations more challenging.” As conditions deteriorated and the fire ...

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I Can't Hear You, Can You Hear Me?
Firehouse.com
At several recent incidents, in my position as assistant chief of the Tenafly, NJ, Fire Department, I had trouble communicating on the fireground. ...

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Three Fire Service Staff Arrested Over Firefighter Deaths
Firefighter Hourly
Fireground Command Incompetence as well as Pre-Incident Training Failures in the Charleston, SC Fire Department, prior to 6-18-07, even though their are ...

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Burn care on the fireground
FireRescue1
By Dr. Ken Lavelle, MD, NREMT-P One of the more prototypical injuries that may be found on the fireground is, of course, ...

Digital-radio fireground tests delayed
Urgent Communications
New tests to assess digital-radio performance in fireground-noise environments have been delayed until the spring, according to an official participating in ...