CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (July 6, 2010) – Hale has improved its Fyr Pak™, an ergonomically designed, backpack-mounted water pump as an ideal pump package for fighting wild land and forest fires. This ...

I had the opportunity recently to review pictures from several rural fires in which portable pumps were used, and that prompted me to do a more thorough review of their operation. Portable pumps are a ...

Flip flops, bright red shorts, a pair of glasses — and nothing else. That was the firefighting gear worn by a Thousand Islands resident when a blaze broke out at a cottage on Ash Island in the St.