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Big Red Trucks have been staples of North American fire departments for decades, even on emergency medical calls rather than working fires.

We’ve long wondered whether anything short of James Howard Kunstler’s worst nightmare predictions for the Long Emergency will ever dethrone the Almighty Car.

Although they're still dithering when it comes to fixing Illinois' sinking financial ship, our General Assembly did something right this session: On April 27, 2010, the House passed legislation ado

Cutting-edge research proves street design matters where effective emergency response is concerned, and suburban sprawl patterns harm response

Bummer about the birds, but what strip mall doesn't deserve something like this?

Enjoy, and Happy Thanks...giving.

Suburban sprawl is hurting Emergency Medical Service response times, according to a new study released by University of Virginia researchers and published in the November 2009 edition of the

CNU went 1-for-2 at the International Code Council’s fire code hearings in October 2009, but as »

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BALTIMORE -- CNU’s proposed changes to the International Fire Code will be heard and either approved or rejected within the next two hou

BALTIMORE – The International Code Council hearings are an arena in which the (mostly) irresistible force of brevity meets the immovable agenda: hundreds of proposed additions, deletions, correct

Street design goes far beyond traffic “throughput” or aesthetics alone; strong links between street design and public safety must be recognized and incorporated into everyday traffic engineerin