According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), the U.S. is home to the largest passenger vehicle market in the world, with more than 254 million registered passenger vehicles. So it ...

Objective: Rescue & Fire Suppression Considerations for Carbon Fiber Task: Given the potential for a crash with entrapment or a fire involving a vehicle with carbon fiber materials comprising portions ...

Today’s vehicles are well equipped to try to keep drivers safe during a crash and include safety equipment like airbags and other technologies. Unfortunately, this can sometimes impede the progress of ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) released a request for information (RFI) seeking commercially ...

The October 2013 edition of FireRescue’s In-Depth Extrication column discussed situations that call for the movement of the patient’s vehicle. Responders must be proactive when developing initial and ...

Stabilization of the overturned vehicle is paramount. Stabilization struts are used on the frame side of the vehicle to give support. Note that the stabilization strut is braced into the frame of the ...

SUMMIT TOWNSHIP — Summit Township Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue was dispatched at 10:21 p.m. Saturday for a single-vehicle crash that required them to act fast. Multiple callers advised a car ...

The Seattle Fire Department urged people to steer clear of the stretch of Greenwood as emergency vehicles packed the street.