Firehouse.com

Firefighting - Rescue - Firefighter Training - EMS Training -Firefighter Jobs - EMS -Rescue - Extrication - HazMat - Paramedic -

Strategy and Tactics

Labs can be found in a variety of locations and neighborhoods

If your agency is dispatched to a possible clandestine drug lab, would you know how to recognize one? What happens if your responders find one during routine activities?

According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), in 2008 there were over 6,783 laboratory incidents including labs and dumpsites in the United States. A clandestine laboratory is any laboratory that manufactures illegal, controlled drugs or substances. These labs have been found in single- and multiple-family dwellings...

Contributors

Vincent Dunn

Vincent Dunn
Dunn's Dispatch: Terrorism Strategies
The fire service will be called into action by federal, state and local officials to perform duties which we have not been trained to accomplish.

Christopher Naum

Christopher Naum
Technical Rescue – Part IV
The typical demands associated with the response to a site-specific collapse rescue incident or a region-wide disaster with collapse considerations can quickly overwhelm even the largest of emergency service agencies.
 

Recent Podcasts

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 17:35

Host Bob Duemmel talks with three Southern California area firefighters about a recent cliff rescue at the Cabrillo National Monumen and rescue training throughout the state.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:55

Host Bob Duemmel talks with New Jersey Task Force 1 member Michael Daley about the wide array of equipment carried by USAR teams on their deployments.

The two discuss the different types of search gear, breaking and breaching tools and shoring equipment. Hear how they transport the equipment from their base to the scene of a catastrophe and what they need to bring to be self-sufficient for the first 72 hours.

 

Buyers Guide

Visit the Firehouse Buyers Guide for information on firefighting products, equipment, and services.

 

Blogs

Christopher Naum's avatar

The essence of fire service suppression operations is predicated upon the deployment and application of water as an extinguishing agent, in sufficient quantities, location and duration to extinguish a fire within an enclosed...

 

Upcoming TrainingLive Webcasts

Webcast presenter

Jeffrey Pindelski

Monday, August 31, 2009 - 03:00

Rapid intervention and firefighter survival skills are often considered advanced, but do you have a firm grasp on the basic skills of firefighter removal? This webcast, based on case studies and proven statistics, will enable you to learn essential rapid intervention rope rescue concepts that can also be applied to basic, everyday fireground survival.

 

Hot Products

 

Events

 

User login