In December 2024 and January 2025, we examined the four attributes of smoke: velocity, volume, density, and color. Understanding each attribute is important, but firefighters must also know how to combine those observations into a quick, repeatable size-up.

Greetings to my fellow firefighters and families hope all is well in your communities.  We have had a difficult winter season with the extreme cold, and I hope you all survived the Iowa weather.  <

March is here. Which means, only 2-3 more blizzards before spring is really here!

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Every one of us has seen the pictures of the giant career-size fires that we may only get to respond to a few times during our career.  Have you ever sat back and

As the new year gains momentum and February quickly approaches, I feel it is a fitting time to reflect on where we are—and where we are headed together.