You just cannot make this stuff up! Allen Park to lay off entire Fire Department. That's right the entire department except for the Chief. Just in case you are wondering, Allen Park is small city just outside of Detorit with a size of 7 square miles. The best part of the whole story, is city officals do not have a backup plan to provide fire service!

Leave it up to David Dalrymple from RoadwayRescue, LLC to post a training event that makes me want to jump in the car and drive out to New Jersey. The training event is called Terc US Presents Top Gun of Vehicle Rescue. Read the info below and visit the website for more information. Sounds like a great laidback weekend of training.

First off, if you do not recieve the Moditech Newsletter than go straight to their website and sign up for it! Acheive newsletters as far back as 2006 as also availible on their website. Take advantage of the free very useful information that Moditech Rescue Solutions provides in the newsletter. While you are at the Moditech Site, make sure you take a look at the Crash Recovery System (CRS).

Are you looking for a cool St. Paddy's day fire shirt? Check out the 2011 St Paddy's Day T-Shirt sold by Detroit Fire Tees. Detroit Fire Tees is owned and operated by a Detroit Firefighter and his wife. They have been making and selling Detroit Fire shirts for years and their solgan is "as long as you continue to love them we will continue to make them". For only $15, you cannot go wrong!

Bentley Motors developed an advanced rollover protection system that is installed beneath the rear headrests for occupant safety. The way the system works is, if the car’s on-board computer senses that it is about to roll during an accident, the two reinforced steel hoops pictured below are deployed in a split second. The steel hoops work in conjunction with the strong windshield frame to protect passengers in the front and rear seats.

A video of an extrication where a car was embedded around a metal traffic signal pole was post on YouTube a couple of years back. The extrication was handled by the Santa Fe Spring Fire Department and LA County Fire Department. What is good about the video is how much

Let's say a Dodge Magnum rear ended the vehicle in front of it and your officer tells to you to secure the 12volt power on the Magnum. Is your first thought to go straight to the hood? Better not! Instead, look like the firefighter who knows that the battery in the 2005-2008 Dodge Magnums is located in the rear cargo area by the spare tire. Just lift up the cargo carpet cover secure the battery!

The body structure of the 2011 Seat León is unitised made from galvanised steel and uses 50% more high-strength and ultra-high-strength steels than in the previous León, 63% of the steels used are high-strength and 5% are ultra-high-strength. The sheet-metal components that make up the top section of the body (which are the roof, side panelling, pillars and side skirts) as well as the protective bars in the doors are mostly high-strength steels. The frame structure in the lower section of the new León is also composed of a high percentage of high-strength steels.

Too many cities are playing Russian Rolette with reducing the number of firefighters.

So you roll up on a MVA and you notice some rich guy crashed his high-end BMW. What you may run into is a BMW Security Vehicle that is a factory made armored car. Now I know the chances are between slim and none. However, you never know. Just look at the 3 BMW models below and tell me if they look like armored cars? Believe it or not, they are!