It’s 7:30. I’m drinking a hot cup of coffee and getting to know my new crewmembers as we complete the daily inventory. Being a newly appointed officer, all the anticipation and excitement of what may ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) released a request for information (RFI) seeking commercially ...

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), the U.S. is home to the largest passenger vehicle market in the world, with more than 254 million registered passenger vehicles. So it ...

First responders from across the region will have an opportunity to sharpen their vehicle extrication skills during an ...

Today’s vehicles are well equipped to try to keep drivers safe during a crash and include safety equipment like airbags and other technologies. Unfortunately, this can sometimes impede the progress of ...

Task: The rescue team shall complete all skills that are on the operations-level skills checklist Training officers, rescue crew chiefs and instructors who are preparing for a vehicle rescue session ...

OBJECTIVE: Given a scenario involving a person trapped in a vehicle that has its battery located inside the passenger compartment, the rescue team will develop a plan for completing extrication work ...

Longer entrapment in a vehicle is associated with higher mortality, but some patients are in far more danger than others. For traffic accidents that result in entrapment in a vehicle, a mnemonic may ...

When you think of the work of a firefighter, the first image that comes to mind is probably one of a burning house, ladders and hoses. But fighting fires is only a small fraction of the job. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, a team of Atlanta firefighters are taking part in a national competition on how fast they can extricate people ...