For first responders, flooding and water rescues require adequate funding, training, and equipment – all of which will help save lives.
Dr. Randall Hanifen takes a look at the benefits of attending one of the many upcoming national fire conferences.
The operational model used by fire services varies across the globe, but we have much in common, including our training principles.
Each year, some of the same predictable disasters, like wildfires and tornadoes, occur in certain communities.
Without the government creating policies to improve emergency management services problems, the EMS system is on a trajectory to fail.
The amount of EMS agencies with varying structures in the United States would be difficult to pull together under one federal agency.
EMS agencies have argued for a while now that EMS agencies should be united from the federal level down to all local agencies.
In the public health discipline, there is a lot of discussion about health disparities and their effect on communities.