To help prepare for the 2007 Firefighter and EMS Safety Stand Down, Firehouse.com offers more than three dozen SOPs and SOGs from around the country, that can be easily adapted by your department, ...

Process Identification: Identify the chemicals, process or equipment involved. Controls: List required methods to control potential exposures, including use of administrative controls, engineering ...

It is difficult to plan operations or events as a staff, especially at the battalion level, when so many of the planners are young and inexperienced. Even the battalion executive officer (XO) and the ...

The firefighter will demonstrate a basic knowledge of standard operating procedures as a means of positioning and utilizing apparatus and personnel in a variety of common structural fireground ...