Monday, St. George Fire is the first La. FD to carry blood. Medics trained since March, dispatchers trained to know when to send one. The blood was the easy part. firerescue1.com/fire-based-e… #FireService

Boston, 1942. A nightclub rated for 460 had over a thousand inside. The main exit was a revolving door. It jammed with bodies and broke. 492 died. Outward-swinging doors would have saved 300. New documentary, up now. youtu.be/DINYmG2G6vw

Huntsville's SCBA cascade trailer failed an oil test June 15, back in service July 2, retest results July 8. Over 50 firefighters report illness. City denies a link. firerescue1.com/legal/ala-fi… #FireService

CPSE's new 32-page guide on drone-as-first-responder programs is mostly staffing and public trust. The aircraft is the cheap part. firerescue1.com/uas-uav-and-… #FireService

Forest Service apprentice Kaitlyn Gallagher, 24, killed by a falling tree on a 10-acre fire in Kisatchie NF. Acreage is what drops your guard. firerescue1.com/line-of-duty… #LODD

A stopped train put Lockland, OH crews 7 minutes from a house fire they were 30 seconds from. A woman died. Count the crossings in your first-due. fireengineering.com/firefigh… #fireservice

OCFA will test fire modeling that lets crews add their own containment lines. Div. Chief Mike Sheehan on today's models: "it's based on if we do nothing." firerescue1.com/technology/c… #fireservice

NY quadrupled the volunteer firefighter tax credit, $200 to $800. Lands on 2027 returns. Nobody claims a credit they never heard of. whec.com/top-news/state-legi… #firefighter

Southington, CT turned down a $3.03M SAFER grant for 12 firefighters, 5-4. An award is not a job until the council votes on the town's share. firerescue1.com/fire-grant-c… #firefighter

LA city and county fire pre-positioned crews and aircraft ahead of this week's Santa Ana winds. Nothing was burning when that call got made. That is the hard part. heysocal.com/2026/10/15/fire… #fireservice

Anne Arundel County landed a $4.97M SAFER grant funding 26 positions. A SAFER award is the earliest hiring signal a candidate gets. Watch the jobs page, not the recruiting post. This week's issue: rogers-newsletter-257a18.bee… #firefighter

A vacant LA church burned a third time Monday. 180 firefighters, all of it from the outside, embers at 25 houses. The building was already gone. The block was the job. abc7.com/post/large-fire-tea… #firefightersafety

Six EVs burned at a Fort Worth dealership. Fort Worth FD worked it 17 hours 33 minutes. Water does not reach a sealed pack. firehouse.com/operations-tra… #fireservice

Buckholts VFD firefighter Rick Fuentes, 26, died Sunday driving to a grass fire. The truck left the road and rolled. He taught middle school science. kltv.com/2026/10/12/buckholt… #LODD

The Greenbrier Engine 1 rollover report is out. Inattentive or erratic operation. Speed unknown. Defects unknown. Your drivers learn nothing from that. arkansasradio.com/2026/10/re… #firefightersafety

Boise Fire: $2.3M SAFER grant, nine firefighters, four-person staffing at three more stations. Covers 62% for three years. Then the city owns all nine. firerescue1.com/idaho-fd-win… #firefighter

FEMA put $1.5M behind a question nobody has measured: does how your gear fits change what gets inside it? Biomarkers before and after live burns. wctv.tv/2026/10/08/huge-win-… #firefighter

Every rule in the fire service was written in someone's loss. I spent 31 years finding that out. Now I'm going back through the fires that rewrote the job and telling them properly. New documentary every four weeks. youtube.com/@TheLastAlarmDoc…

Durham firefighter Andrew Brokes died Thursday. The roof collapsed on a commercial building being lived in. It reads commercial from the street. firerescue1.com/line-of-duty… #LODD

155 years ago tonight: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Up to 2,400 dead and 1.2 million acres burned in the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history. Chicago burned the same night. Full story: youtu.be/14gS6_bJeKY