Beyond Operations: The Chief's Role in Reducing the Impact of Fire

Row houses are a common and often iconic housing style in many large cities but are also present in small towns. The characteristics of row houses that make them unique also pose a challenge to fighting fires. To address these ...

The Guide for Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Department offers ways you can increase the levels of diversity, inclusiveness, and equity in eight specific areas of your department or organization. The guide is meant to be a usable, practical tool ...

The climate survey toolkit allows you to take the internal temperature of your department and identify areas where you can strengthen diversity, inclusion, teamwork and leadership to create a more inclusive organization. More diversity in the fire service leads to ...

There is no single road to chief in the volunteer fire service. You progress through the ranks, or you step in because nobody else wanted the job. You might have one or twenty years of fire service experience. No matter ...

As fire and EMS responders, we are faced with a multitude of challenges when we interact with underrepresented and marginalized communities. An underrepresented group is best understood as a minority group (racial, ethnic, or cultural) whose presence in a subset ...