December 2005

• December 23:
  If Santa Could Give Your Department Any Present For 2006, What Would It Be?
  
  
• December 16:
  What Type Of Radio System Does Your Department Currently Use?
  
  
• December 07:
  What Do You Feel Your Fire Chiefs Main Concern Is?
  
  

• November 28:
  Have You Ever Been On A RIT Team That Succesfully Deployed & Extricated A Trapped or Injured Firefighter?
  
  
• November 16:
  How Often Does Your Department Do Hands-On Training?
  
  
• November 08:
  Do You Feel The Nation's Volunteer Ranks Are Plummeting Like The Headlines Suggest?
  
  
• November 02:
  What Tool(s) Do You Prefer To Use For Forcible Entry?
  
  

• October 24:
  On A Scale of 1-5, 1 Being Most Important. How Do You Rate The Control Of Utilities On Working Structure Fires?
  
  
• October 11:
  In Your Department's Standpipe/High-Rise Packs, What Type Of Nozzle Do You Have Connected?
  
  
• October 05:
  Besides Search & Rescue, What Task Or Duty Does Your Department's Truck Company Feel Is The Next Priority At A House Fire?
  
  

• September 29:
  Do You Feel That "10-Codes" Are Complicated & Should Be Removed From Police & Fire Department Radio Terminology?
  
  
• September 13:
  Should FEMA be an independent, cabinent level agency separate from the the Department of Homeland Security?
  
  
• September 1:
  What do you think of the first week emergency response to Hurricane Katrina?
  
  

• August 22:
  Which Apparatus Within Your Department Is Equipped With Telescoping Scene Lighting? (Check All That Apply)
  
  
• August 17:
  IAFC Has Just Launched The Near Miss Reporting System, Are You...?
  
  
• August 9:
  Does Your Volunteer/Career Department Allow You To Serve In A "Light Duty Capacity While Injured?
  
  
• August 1:
  Does Your Department Provide Free Smoke Alarms & Batteries For The Citizens You Protect?
  
  

• July 14:
  Is your Departments Fire Apparatus Equipped With Headsets?
  
  
• July 8:
  Does Your Fire Department/District Require Residential Sprinkler Systems To Be Installed In New Construction?
  
  
• July 1:
  Does Your Fire Departments Turnout Coats Come Equiped With Wristlets?
  
  

• June 20:
  Is Your Department Doing Anything Tied to the national Stand Down for Firefighter Safety event?
  
  
• June 13:
  What do you think about Lexington, Ky. firefighters getting a paid holiday on 9/11 starting this year?
  
  
• June 06:
  Has Your Fire Department Allowed Wireless Phone Carriers To Place Cellular Antenas & Equipment On Fire Department Property?
  
  

• May 25:
  Your Operating On The Second Floor Of A Single Family Dwelling As A Member Of A Search Team. Suddenly You Fall Through The Floor And Find Yourself Lost And Injured Somewhere On The First Floor, What Would Your First Radio Transmission Be?
  
  
• May 17:
  Which Piece Or Apparatus Does Your Department Keep It's Thermal Imaging Camera On?
  
  
• May 10:
  Has The Rising Fuel Costs Affected Your Departments Use Or Response Of Apparatus?
  
  
• May 06:
  What Brand SCBA Does Your Department Primarily Use?
  
  
• May 02:
  What Is Your Department's Policy About Wearing PPE To Automatic Fire Alarm Calls?
  
  

• April 27:
  Is Your Firehouse Equipped With A Diesel Exhaust Capturing System?
  
  
• April 22:
  How Much Water Does Your First Out Piece Of Apparatus Carry?
  
  
• April 18:
  How Old Is Your Departments First Out Engine?
  
  
• April 07:
  Is Your Fire Station Fully Protected By Automatic Fire Sprinklers?
  
  

• March 31:
  Which Firehouse TrainingLIVE Webcast Did You Find To Be Most Useful?
  
  
• March 22:
  What Is Your Fire Departments Annual Operating Budget?
  
  
• March 15:
  Does Your Department Wash & Decontaminate It's Turnout Gear To NFPA 1851 Standards?
  
  
• March 10:
  Does Your Department Radios Have The Ability To Communicate Directly With Local Law Enforcement Officials?
  
  
• March 1:
  Should Ladder/Aerial Apparatus Be Equipped With A Pump And Water Tank?
  
  

• February 22:
  Does Your Department Perform Random Drug Testing To It's Members?
  
  
• February 15:
  What is the minimum age in your department to operate a responding emergency vehicle (at least an ambulance)?
  
  
• February 14:
  Should Fire Prevention Week Be Expanded To Fire Prevention Month?
  
  
• February 9:
  Do You Carry Personal Escape Rope Or Webbing With You During Firefighting Operations?
  
  

• January 24:
  Does Your Department Have PASS Devices Integrated Into It's SCBA?
  
  
• January 17:
  Fire Showing On Side D, Second Floor From Two Windows. When Do You Charge The Attack Line?
  
  
• January 13:
  Should All Firefighters Be Equiped With A Portable Radio?
  
  
• January 4:
  What Do You Think Should Be Your Departments Training New Years Resolution Be?
  
  

Related:

• 2004 Pole Results
  
• 2003 Pole Results
  
• 2002 Pole Results
  
• 2001 Pole Results
  
• 2000 Pole Results