It’s not easy work to search for a person trapped in a smoke-filled basement or hallway, as local legislators recently discovered. But it’s something Pittsburgh firefighters are prepared to do on a ...

Fire departments from across Wisconsin invited city leaders and lawmakers to experience what firefighters go through on a ...

And they study a 500-page encyclopedic manual, learning about such things as firefighting history, the characteristics of fire, how to load a hose in a truck and firefighting tools, including the ...