Charlotte Fire takes its 1958 Seagrave long-nose for a ride
The engine opened Station 11 in 1959, trained recruits for years and came out of storage for one more working shift in 1997. It still runs.
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Station & Leadership
Life in the firehouse and leadership in the company, including traditions, people, culture and the work of running a crew and a department.
Make It Safe to Speak Up Mid-Incident: A Company Officer's CRM Field Guide
NIOSH now recommends professional development that builds psychological safety on the fireground, and the 4th-edition crew resource management (CRM) manual shows how; here are the scripts, debrief format, and officer habits that get crews to raise a concern while it still matters.
A last shift on his 60th birthday, alongside his son
Miami-Dade firefighter Alan Lilly finished 21 years with the department at Station 76, on his birthday, working with his son Justin.
Push-in season: why crews still push new rigs into the bay
The ceremony goes back to horse-drawn engines. Gridley, Wichita and Boca Raton all put new apparatus in service the old way this year.
Where the volunteers went, and what Pennsylvania's recruiting grants added
The United States has about 173,000 fewer volunteer firefighters than it did in 1986, and call volume has more than tripled. Federal recruitment grants brought new members to Pennsylvania departments. No published figures show how many stayed.
Wallace the Glasgow fire dog gets his statue
A stray that ran ahead of Glasgow's horse-drawn engines from 1894 to 1902 now stands in the main hall of Glasgow Central Station, rubber boots included.