Firehouse Magazine...

[yfdgricker]

Firehouse Magazine is another one. Although I think they have gone downhill quality wise. I quit getting a subscription after having one for 10 years.

Their website is http://www.firehouse.com

[Box 2565]

I haven't been a subscriber for many years either.  Just curious Greg, have your feelings towards this publication changed at all lately?

 

[yfdgricker]

Well. Maybe just a little bit. I might be half tempted to restart a subscription.

[daysleeper47]

I got a subscription for free due to a glich in the Firehouse.com forums. There were 13 people back in 2000 who lost thier user names and profiles and I was one of them. The ever-caring webteam gave the 13 of us free subscritions. Well, I had one for 2.5 years and then when I came to Ireland, I cancelled it. I think I will reinstate it when I get home, but I didn't have the funds at the time I left to pay for even a year's worth of renewel.

[Frank Boyd]

I also canceled my subscription to fire house. I started in 1980 and canceled in early 90's. It seems like you are reading the same issue month after month, only names and places changed. The only magazine I get now is FAJ
I also grew tired or Fire Engineering as well as Fire Command (first to go). I will glance at these when I'm at the fire house.

[daysleeper47]

I'd be interested to see if opinions have changed in the last seven years. I still have no subscriptions, and never did restart that Firehouse subscription. I usually take one of the 6 copies of Fire Engineering that we get at the firehouse. In my opinion, it has the best technical articles on the fire service.

[boardmansteve]

I let my Fire Engineering subscription expire and renewed Firehouse.  Firehouse has actual fire reports, reminiscent of FE through the early 1980s.  I like reading about the incidents; how they started, the FD response, how the fire was fought, and the aftermath/follow up.  Fire Chief and Fire Engineering don't have much of this, but occasionally have good apparatus articles.

[MilFireGuy]

If anyone has WWII issues of Fie Engineering I'm always looking for those for research purposes.