Reading the roof of a fire building starts as the apparatus nears the incident, including assessment of the roof's pitch and covering, of ventilation indicators, and of dead loads and structural ...

Lyons, IL, Fire Department (LFD) Fire Chief Gordon Nord Jr. is a proponent of the implementation of positive pressure ventilation (PPV) on the fireground. “The days of old, when you’d break every ...

Firefighters from South Plainfield responded to a second alarm structure fire on the 800 block of Central Street on Thursday evening. Truck 7 from the South Plainfield Volunteer Fire Department was ...

Firefighters say a gas line and metal roof intensified the fire, while collapsing floors forced crews to shift from interior ...