A consortium of south suburban fire departments on Wednesday opened the region’s first firefighter candidate testing center, a major step toward aligning local hiring practices with national standards ...

I liken becoming a firefighter to the television show "Survivor." In many ways, getting hired as a firefighter is survival of the fittest, and not for the faint at heart. Many candidates begin the ...

Following news stories that two fallen West Roxbury firefighters may have been impaired when they died, local fire departments are taking a look at their own drug and alcohol policies. Those policies ...

NEW YORK, June 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: LUCD) ("Lucid" or the "Company"), a commercial-stage, cancer prevention medical diagnostics company, and majority-owned ...

Perception is in the eye of the beholder. People are continuously forming opinions about you, based on their perception of you. Alternately, you are also continuously forming opinions about others, ...

SCOTTS MILLS, Ore. (KOIN) – Ron Bielenberg may have been one of the youngest firefighters ever hired by Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue. He started when he was 20 and spent the next 23 years there. “Oh, ...

Research on the performance of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Fire Service is challenged by the ability to repeatedly and feasibly test new designs, interventions and wear trials in ...

LaShonn Tomlinson always had dreams of becoming a Chicago firefighter, but while working at Amtrak’s Union Station storage yard, those dreams often passed him by. “For years, I would see the new ...

As Greg Gammon, director of Fire Science for CSN and the former chief of the Las Vegas Fire Department, on Thursday surveyed the 25,000-square-foot facility during an open house, he noted that ...

In the third case of suspected on-duty intoxication in six weeks, a San Francisco firefighter was ordered to be tested for alcohol Monday after his supervisor smelled liquor on his breath, authorities ...