Routine Responses

A place to discuss those responses we go on all the time that sometimes can hurt us.
  • Utility Emergencies

    Fire Departments respond to emergencies of all kinds. When you respond to an emergency involving utilities / services what are your roles and responsibilities? Do you have standard procedures for handling these incidents? What concerns do you have for co-dependant utilities? ( If you have to turn…

    By Kevin Galligan

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  • VOC's Volatile Organic Compounds

    This is a after the fire related question. My friend Chief Scott Clark with Manhattan, Kansas Fire Department wrote an EFO paper on SCBA and VOC's. I am intrested in finding out what others do. Does your fire department take a VOC reading with a mulit-ray meter before allowing members to remove…

    By Rick Mosher

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