This class provides an opportunity for the UL Firefighting Safety Research Institute (FSRI), along with four of the technical panel members who served on both the suppression study and the coordinated fire attack study, to present the highlights and fireground applications of the research. This research, conducted over the past 10 years, was focused primarily on ventilation and suppression, independent from one another, at fires in single-family dwellings. With a solid understanding of horizontal, vertical, and positive-pressure ventilation alongside both interior and exterior water application, the time has come to put the pieces together: How do we define coordination on the fireground? What makes for an effective fire attack? The current UL FSRI study into coordinating ventilation and suppression on the fireground is nearing its completion. The science from the lab was taken to the streets as experiments were conducted in acquired single-family dwellings, garden-style apartments, and a commercial strip mall. This study, much like all of our other studies, is guided by a technical panel of firefighters from across the country.

A Hartland (NY) Volunteer Fire Company first responder has died after being hit by a Barker Fire Department apparatus at the scene of a fire.

Crews were responding to a field fire in Somerset around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when a Barker Fire Department rescue truck was backing up on Quaker Road. It then hit and ran over a Hartland Volunteer Fire Company member who was acting as a spotter. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the apparatus was uninjured, and the names of all parties involved are not being released yet.

The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office Accident Investigation Unit is investigating.

Midwest Fire—Southwestern Polk County Rural Fire Department, Sheridan, OR, four pumper-tankers. Freightliner M2 112 cabs and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engines; Hale RSD 1,250-gpm pumps; APR polypropylene 2,000-gallon water tanks; Newton 10-inch square rear dump valves; All-Poly™ tank and body construction. Dealer: Brett Jansen, Midwest Fire, Luverne, MN. (Photo by Damon Schulze)

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Cambria Township Volunteer Fire Company will have an upgrade to its fire station, reports Altoona Mirror.

First responders broke ground for a 4,900-square-foot addition to the current fire station. Improving the fire station is 25 years in the making. The current fire station was built in 1972. Small renovations and additions were made in the 1990s.

The new facility will cost the fire department $643,000, with the entirety of the project being funded in-house.

The current station has just two bay doors, but the department has four working pieces of apparatus that are crammed inside.