A hard truth in 2023: Unless you are located in California, Texas or the Southeast, your fire department probably isn’t growing. Your workload might be getting larger, but your human and physical ...

The primary mission of a modern fire service organization is not response to an emergency, but mitigation of risk, doing the most possible to prevent the fire event from occurring. This makes economic ...

Fire Prevention Week is October 6-12 this year. The 4K teacher in my rural community will invite a volunteer firefighter into her classroom as she does each year so the kids get to see someone they ...

Four members of the Ottumwa City Council voted against the second reading of a fire inspection ordinance during the first ...