Saving lives requires hands-on experience, which is why Central Illinois fire departments took their training to the next level on Tuesday. It was day one of a week-long program for firefighters in ...

Lyons, IL, Fire Department (LFD) Fire Chief Gordon Nord Jr. is a proponent of the implementation of positive pressure ventilation (PPV) on the fireground. “The days of old, when you’d break every ...

Firefighters from South Plainfield responded to a second alarm structure fire on the 800 block of Central Street on Thursday ...

Reading the roof of a fire building starts as the apparatus nears the incident, including assessment of the roof's pitch and covering, of ventilation indicators, and of dead loads and structural ...