by Danny Stephens | Oct 13, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
A sawmill makes its own fuel. Every cut throws off sawdust and fines, and every shift the stuff settles on beams, belts, and motors and collects under the machinery where nobody can see it. Add hot equipment and hydraulic oil in a cramped building and you get what...
by Danny Stephens | Oct 5, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
The best fire agent on your truck is the one that’s ready the moment the tones drop — and still ready the next time, with no drill of draining and flushing the tank in between. For a long time the agents departments lived with made that a trade: keep it loaded...
by Danny Stephens | Sep 30, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
There is no worse place to have a fire than at sea. On land, a burning building has a fire department rolling toward it and a street full of hydrants. A ship in open water has neither. The crew fights with what is aboard, they cannot walk away from the problem, and if...
by Danny Stephens | Sep 22, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
The machines that hold the power grid together are getting old, and they are starting to burn. Transformer installations in the United States peaked in the mid-1970s, the average unit lasts about forty years, and much of that fleet is reaching the end of the run all...
by Danny Stephens | Sep 15, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
An electric vehicle doesn’t wait until it’s moving to become a fire problem. Most of the time it’s sitting still — parked on level three, or plugged into a charger — when a cell lets go. That’s the part that makes a parking structure such a...
