The best fire instructors go way beyond imparting skills. They guide recruits through the process with empathy and ...

Communication and the ability to experience and express emotions make us human. However, the delivery and receipt of this likely will be different from one person to the next. A leader’s ability to ...

Virtual reality (VR) has arrived in the fire service as a transformative tool for enhancing training effectiveness and realism. Immersing students in a virtual environment that’s a familiar setting, ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department has graduated 18 dispatchers from the inaugural Regional Fire Communication Center (RFCC) Dispatch Academy. The newly minted dispatchers will start answering ...

We look back to 40 years ago and there were several people who would volunteer their time to the fire department to help the community. Where has that gone? Are we not recruiting students in high ...

The Hotchkiss Fire District announced that Chief Doug Fritz was the recipient of the 2025 George Mazzotti Fire Chief of the ...