Staffing issues on the ladder truck challenge many departments. Truck work is a specialized skill set that requires all four members be up to par on their tasks. Although some cities have set ...

Chances are high you've heard the term "top tasks" before. Top tasks are the main things that customers, citizens and employees want to do when they interact with you. It's what matter most to them.

Learn how to execute tasks in threads in this excerpt from Java Concurrency in Practice (Brian Goetz et al. (Addison Wesley Professional, May 2006)). The authors present the Executor interface as the ...

Editor’s Note: As the number of structure fires decreases, fire departments increasingly struggle with how to prepare company officers and battalion chiefs–many of whom have seen very few working ...