To stay relevant, firefighters must see themselves as career-long students. Learning should not stop at graduation from the recruit academy; instead, graduation marks the beginning of a firefighter’s ...

Fire departments need dedicated, skilled recruits more than ever. Jeremy Freeman on how high school firefighter training can ...

In 2015, I transitioned to fire chief of the McKeesport, PA, Fire Department. I had ideas to move the department forward but quickly realized that I lacked the tools to implement them effectively. Yes ...

A short time back, my department was at a point where it achieved a lot of great things, and people of all ranks and positions were heavily engaged. Most of the engagement had to do with the fact that ...

Game changer, disrupter, hard-charger. Those are terms usually reserved to describe the captains of industry. But when you are Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell and head up a large federal agency like the U.S.

A watchdog says it remains concerned about the culture and values of a fire service, and there is "still much more work to do ...