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Take a look at what you'll find in FIRESCUE Interactive and the FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainer:



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FIRESCUE Interactive

FIRESCUE Interactive is our acclaimed monthly training magazine. Each issue is packed with street-smart training material designed to keep you alive on the fireground! Our growing list of nationally recognized fire service authors, inlcuding Bob Pressler, Mike Lombardo, Jim Crawford, John Salka, Dave McGrail, Bob Hoff, Frank Brannigan, Alan Brunacini, Dennis Compton andVincent Dunn will keep you on the leading edge of the profession — and keep you alive! — Download a recent issue. (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainer

Exclusively for our department members, the FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainer is a monthly training package designed to assist your training department by providing a reality-based fireground training session. Each Trainer provides a session overview, resource list, reference list, and detailed training/lesson plan to be used by company officers and department trainers. In addition, each Trainer includes a Hands-On Activity guide (providing 3 separate hands-on training scenarios) and a Student Handout that allows students to refresh and review the highlights. It's the best value in the fire service! — Download a recent issue. (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Here's a listing of back issue topics. Back issues are $20.00 per issue. For complete Volumes, or the entire collection of back issues, contact the Network for pricing.

Listing of Previous FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainers


Volume IX (2005)

  • Fireground Operations: Private Dwellings
  • Venting Windows
  • Firefighter Survival — Part I
  • Forcing Padlocks & Chains
  • Engine Ops: Extended Hose Stretches
  • Fireground Ops: Controlling the Utilities
  • Radio Communications on the Fireground
  • Strategy & Tactics: Modern Strip Malls
  • Truck Company Ops: First-Due Truck
  • Engine Company Ops: First-Due Engine

Volume VIII (2004)

  • Ventilation: Private Dwellings
  • RIT: Assessing, Stabilizing & Packaging a Firefighter
  • Commercial Building Forcible Entry
  • Developing a Sustained Water Supply
  • Vehicle Extrication I – Assignments, Tools, Staging
  • RIT Air Pack
  • Aerial Master Streams
  • Rescuing Civilians
  • Hose & Nozzle Basics
  • Big Lines & Defensive Operations
  • Moving Victims Over Stairs
  • SCBA Air Management

Volume VII (2003)

  • Engine Company Emergencies
  • Firefighter Window Rescues
  • Conventional Forcible Entry
  • Fireground Collapse & Firefighter Rescue
  • Engine Company Basics
  • Rapid Intervention Team Tools
  • Rope-Based Systems for Firefighter Rescue
  • Apparatus Operations – Engine Basics (pumping)
  • Apparatus Operations – Ladder Basics (aerial ops)
  • Commercial Building Fires
  • Truck Company Operations
  • Stretching Hoselines to Upper Floors

Volume VI (2002)

  • FF Survival: Escaping Deteriorating Conditions
  • RIT: Preparing the Fireground
  • SCBA Emergencies Part I
    Reduced profile, Entanglements
  • RIT: Responding to a MAYDAY
  • SCBA Emergencies Part II
    Out-of-Air, Equipment failures
  • Fireground Search – Residential
  • Company Level Preplans
  • FF Survival: Emergency Window Exits Part I
  • Truck Company Tools: The Chain Saw
  • Engine Ops: Performing Difficult Stretches
  • Fireground Communications
  • The 2-1/2 Gallon Extinguisher (the Can)

Volume V (2001)

  • FF Rescue: Removing a FF Through the Floor
  • Ground Ladders on the Fireground
  • Forcible Entry — Rotary Saws
  • Stretching and Advancing the First Line
  • Engine Company Operations — Water Supply
  • Ventilating Flat Roofs
  • Fireground Team Search
  • Fireground Size-Up
  • Carbon Monoxide Responses
  • Fixed Suppression Systems — Sprinklers
  • Fireground Skills Review
  • FF Rescue: Moving a Downed Firefighter


Volume IV (2000)

  • Vent-Enter-Search Operations
  • RIT Operations: Emergency Air Supply
  • Firefighter Disorientation
  • FF Rescue: Searching for a Firefighter
  • Peaked Roof Ventilation
  • Positive Pressure Ventilation
  • Master Streams
  • The 2 1/2-inch Handline
  • Car Fires
  • Firefighter MAYDAY
  • Fireground Entanglement Emergencies
  • Foam Operations — Flammable Liquids

Volume III (1999)

  • Exit Drills for Firefighters
  • Navigating Stairs
  • Salvage — Catching & Controlling Water
  • Incident Benchmarks
  • Power Saws
  • Rapid Intervention
  • Large Area Search
  • Engine Company Operations
  • Ladder Company Operations
  • Air Bags
  • Forcible Entry
  • Primary Search

Volume II (1998)

  • Patient Removal
  • Hoisting Equipment
  • Firefighter Through the Floor
  • Standpipe Systems
  • Supply Line Layouts
  • Vehicle Extrication
  • SCBA Emergencies
  • Power Tools
  • Size-Up / Assignments
  • Stretching Initial Attack Lines
  • Ground Ladders
  • Forcible Exit — Breaching

Volume I (1997)

  • First Alarm Assignments
  • Tanker Shuttles
  • Sprinkler Systems
  • The Ladder Slide
  • Rapid Intervention
  • Cribbing
  • Search and Rescue

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