In December 2024 and January 2025, we examined the four attributes of smoke: velocity, volume, density, and color. Understanding each attribute is important, but firefighters must also know how to combine those observations into a quick, repeatable size-up.

     Greetings Fellow Firefighters - As of this article, our Midyear Meeting is coming up fast.

     Who would ever guess that as I write this, the nation is facing an unprecedented event of the mass spread of a virus that is basically grinding the United States and the world to a stop?

To make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t need to do the extraordinary … you simply need to care!

     The Oberlin fire station was filled with firefighters from around the area, repre­sentatives of Pheasants Forever and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, for wild land fire t

Well, this has been an interesting last few weeks and month.  As I write this article for its future publishing, we are all living under the new threat of a microscopic virus.    Our President has

     When your house burns and everything is de­stroyed, it’s hard to consider yourself lucky but Jim Vaughan is alive.

     Greetings Fellow Firefighters – As of this article, our Midyear Meeting is coming up fast.