Industrial Firefighters Ready to Help Communities Battle COVID-19

IFW survey shows 37% willing to lend personnel to volunteer, municipal departments understaffed due to viral pandemic
IFW survey shows 37% willing to lend personnel to volunteer, municipal departments understaffed due to viral pandemic
The MSA Group has begun accepting applications for its 2020 Globe Gear Giveaway that will award 13 departments with four sets of turnout gear and four helmets, the company has announced.
Three others were transported by air with serious injuries.
At Valero Energy’s 195,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Memphis, Tennessee, training with live fire is the norm, not the exception.
Making a proper on-scene assessment of a silo fire that forced an evacuation around a Texas grain mill in September 2017 proved awkward.
The man who established the first formally organized volunteer fire department in 1736 also invented bifocals, wrote and printed Poor Richard’s “Almanack,” studied electricity and helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
A Minnesota refinery brigade unites management, personnel, and the community in its protection strategy.
Kansas volunteers push their luck fighting an oil field tank fire.
A vapor blast sweeps through Puerto Rico terminal.
Travel keeps Louisiana responders sharp.