When I first started working in schools, response drills for violent incidents were rare, uncomfortable, and often avoided altogether. Fire drills, on the other hand, were routine—scheduled, practiced ...
On March 4, 1908, a fire erupted at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio. Among the frightened students was 9-year-old Niles Thompson, who, in a desperate attempt to escape the flames, lept ...
The U.S. Air Force’s A-10 Thunderbolt II and the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship are both aging platforms, yet they keep finding their way to the center of live-fire drills that look a lot like the ...
LOMPOC, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Fire Department is holding a series of live fire drills this week during the final few days of a training program for a group of firefighter recruits. On ...