The walls crumbled around Melinda Metten. A deep orange glow beckoned from the end of the hall, black dust swirling in a doorway like a gaping mouth to hell. The thick air sizzled…
How To Be A FirefighterOver the years I have watched many people miss out on great job opportunities simply because they can’t pass the damn entrance exam. They spend so much time taking Fire Science classes, being an Explorer, going on ride alongs, and learning all about firefighting; yet they can’t pas a basic firefighter…
BATTALION 3 TECHNOLOGIES RELEASES FIRST MAJOR UPGRADEUpgrade based on user responseFollowing a successful launch of ICx: Incident Command x in 2012, Battalion 3 Technologies released version 2.0 last week. “We were driven by customer feedback…
The New Face of Emergency ResponseHow tomorrow’s emergency requires a drastic change from the status…
One person burned in Mastic house fireHouse fire in Mastic Wednesday, March 30, 2016.A squatter was burned in a fire at a vacant house on Montauk Hwy., between Fulton and Oakland Avenues, in Mastic, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., at a blaze that erupted a few minutes before midnight. The victim…
Video: Mastic House Fire 3/30/2016Mastic Fire Chief Rudy Sunderman Jr., with the assistance of a Good Samaritan civilian, was able to rescue a squatter from this inferno at an abandoned house on Montauk Hwy. in Mastic, Suffolk County, Town of Brookhaven, Long Island, N.Y. The victim suffered burns to…
Week in Review 4.1.16Your LAFD responded to 8,733 incidents this week and transported 4,095 people to…