When members don’t practice forcible entry, they easily can lose a step. Further, the fireground isn’t a place to relearn skills; it’s where members should implement previously covered skills and only ...

Forcible entry is one of the most common jobs for a truck company. Every day, firefighters go to jobs with the first priority being to gain access. Many fire departments fail during recruit school to ...

BROUSSARD, La. (KLFY) — The Broussard Fire Department was gifted a new door to open up enhanced training opportunities for area firefighters. The door is one among 15 Wood’s Forcible Entry training ...

Of all burglaries, 60.5 percent involved forcible entry, according to recent FBI statistics. As a result, many home and businesses are installing a greater number of complex mechanisms on their doors ...

The Hawarden Fire Department is putting newly purchased training equipment to work and sharing it with neighboring departments. Hawarden firefighters recently traveled to Larchwood to lead […] ...

MEDINA — Something which normally would cost anywhere in the range of $6,000 to $8,000 has been provided by welding students to the Medina Fire Department. And the only cost was the materials, meaning ...

ALBION — Jerry Lewis and Orleans County’s other state fire instructors have always preached the necessity of having hand tools ready on a fire or EMS call. The set of irons carried by firefighters are ...