We spend a lot of time in Quick Drills talking about the importance of working on our basic firefighting skills and how focusing on those skills before an incident will make or break your performance.

There are few tasks during the first moments of a structure fire that are as important as selecting and operating the first line. This critical decision has to be made by the first-due officer and can ...

MOTIVATION: Basic skills should be second-nature to each and every firefighter; however, the little things that go along with performing those skills can result in firefighters getting injured or ...