Have you ever driven yourself or a loved one to a hospital because you’re afraid of incurring fees for the ambulance? Well, now a kitchen fire has broken out in your home. You evacuated everyone...
Posts by Mike Pertz
According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International or ESFI, every year, electrical fires lead to $1.3 billion worth of property damage, 1,400+ injuries, 500 deaths, and 51,000 home and...
If you’re like me, you watch a lot of Netflix (or Hulu or HBO, you know what I mean). In so many portrayals of firefighters across television shows and movies, many of them have mustaches. Why is...
The word hero comes with mythic connotations. Maybe you think of comic figures such as Spider-Man, Batman, or Superman. Perhaps you envision a personal hero like a celebrity. Are firefighters...
As a firefighter, I’ve been asked some pretty ridiculous things. One of the topics that comes up more often than you would think is the flammability of farts. Yes, that’s right, good,...
Using the word flammable in place of combustible and vice-versa may seem like one of those “po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe” situations, but I’d beg to differ. Applying these terms interchangeably can...
