Alan Chiasson reminds fire department leadership and front-line members that firefighter safety includes attention to detail ...

When a fire department’s overall performance is the only focus, its members can easily be lost in the shuffle. In turn, leaders must invest some of that focus on their members on a more personal level ...

In the fire department, we promote successful firefighters into leadership positions. Typically, we give our new officer the leadership responsibility of the office, but not the tools/training to ...

A threat assessment is a structured process for evaluating whether a statement, behavior or pattern of conduct that occurred in the firehouse poses a credible risk of harm. A poorly designed or ...