More firefighters are killed per year fighting fires in residential structures than in commercial occupancies, with the single exception of 2007 when the number of deaths in each category was the same ...

Editor's note: The author is a Texas state advocate for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation's Everyone Goes Home Life Safety Initiatives Project. This article implements Initiative 3 -- Focus ...

Contrary to the faster tempo traditionally utilized at opened structure fires, for safety, firefighters operating at the scene of an enclosed structure fire must slow the action down after arrival and ...