Like many firefighters, I always look at buildings as though I were sizing them up for firefighting operations. One building construction technique that always intrigued me is the metal pitched roof.

Today’s fires aren’t the same fires of 100 years ago, but we’re still using some of the same techniques to put them out. These techniques were intended for conventionally built structures with natural ...

Not all fires are fought on the ground and that's what Terre Haute Fire Department recruits Brendan McPike and Joe Phillips learned on Tuesday during ventilation training at a condemned ...

Fill The Line – Vintage FDNY video from Queens. Donny Wunderlich, the OV from Tower Ladder 155, does a great job waiting patiently for Engine 302 to get water before taking the windows (thanks Jim Lee ...