Maintenance
Who is Maintaining the Maintainers?

Who is Maintaining the Maintainers?

For the past decade the U.S. Fire Service has seen documented cases of cancer and suicide directly related to the job. Are emergency vehicle technicians (EVTs) included, and do they have data to track this?

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EVT Talk: Pump Maintenance

EVT Talk: Pump Maintenance

Thre are many things end users can do to keep their engine’s pumps up and running and out of the shop. Join Chris Mc Loone and Andy Biron to learn more about pump maintenance from the EVT’s perspective.

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The Ups and Downs of Technician Certification

The Ups and Downs of Technician Certification

By Kevin Roberts Certification tests can be a challenge for the emergency vehicle technician. For today, let's look at the purposes of certification testing. First, it provides an evaluation of technician knowledge and understanding. Second, it brings in a third...

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Unbalanced Loads and Voltage Drops, Part Three

Unbalanced Loads and Voltage Drops, Part Three

By Kevin Roberts Last time we left you with this diagram.       Figure 1 Our point was to introduce the practical application of unbalanced loads in a series circuit. You wouldn’t have thought it would take this many articles to do so. But the point of...

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Speaking a Common Language

Speaking a Common Language

In this article, I want to cover ways mechanics and firefighters can communicate and work together to solve apparatus problems. Most of these problems come from both sides of the conversation, with both using terms and descriptive statements that one side does not understand.

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Unbalanced Loads and Voltage Drops, Part Two

Unbalanced Loads and Voltage Drops, Part Two

At the end of the last article, I left some of you with a bit of a cliffhanger. But it was a cliffhanger only for some of you because the rest of you clearly understood all the ramifications of the principle set forth in that article.

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