Like many firefighters, I always look at buildings as though I were sizing them up for firefighting operations. One building construction technique that always intrigued me is the metal pitched roof.

Not all fires are fought on the ground and that's what Terre Haute Fire Department recruits Brendan McPike and Joe Phillips learned on Tuesday during ventilation training at a condemned ...

Today’s fires aren’t the same fires of 100 years ago, but we’re still using some of the same techniques to put them out. These techniques were intended for conventionally built structures with natural ...