Albuquerque (NM) Fire Rescue Driver Matthew Klosterman — AFR’s 2025 Firefighter of the Year and chair of the department’s Pre-Incident Planning Committee — contributed a feature article to the FAC Supplement documenting how AFR rebuilt their high-rise program from the ground up. AFR serves a city with 50 high-rise buildings. Their high-rise SOG hadn’t […]
Read MoreYou’ve heard of skyscrapers. You may even be familiar with the operational doctrine built around them — high-rise protocols, standpipe operations, stair staging, elevator recall, air management above the seventh floor. But there is another building type quietly reshaping the American fire attack landscape — one with no standard definition in the model codes, no […]
Read More“Air is everything. Without it, search and rescue stops. Extinguishment stops. Overhaul stops. Salvage stops. Everything we do in the interior attack depends on breathable air reaching our firefighters.” — Mike Gagliano, President, Firefighter Air Coalition Somewhere in America tonight, a firefighter will enter a burning high-rise. They will carry between 15 and 30 minutes […]
Read MoreFire in the Sky will focus on high-rise, big-box and mid-rise ops, strategies and tactics. The second annual Fire in the Sky Conference will be held September 16-18, 2025 in Houston, TX. Firefighters and fire departments must up their game in this ever-changing structural environment of the mega-tall and horizontal structures being built around the […]
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