When a drill in the fire service is developed, the person who designs the training session faces numerous pressures: competing demands for time, the crew wants the drill to be engaging and job-related ...

Many departments are inundated with policies for how to operate at incidents, how to get there, how to train once you are there, what to do afterward, and everything in between. The material that ...

To stay relevant, firefighters must see themselves as career-long students. Learning should not stop at graduation from the recruit academy; instead, graduation marks the beginning of a firefighter’s ...

Immersive learning environments make use of technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and simulation to create realistic environments for learning. These ...

Reflect on the last time that you played a game. For some of you, it might have been in the late 1980s as you tackled the challenges of Super Mario Bros. You ran left to right in a two-dimensional ...

West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) has unveiled its newest recruit: a four-year-old accelerant detection dog called Holly.

A new four-story Fire and Safety Training (FAST) tower has opened at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa. The $2.1 million facility provides realistic live-fire and other training for Iowa's fire departments ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will welcome 40 students Monday to its brand new firefighter training facility in Merced County as part of a multiyear push to bolster its ...