Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fire Service

Fire service articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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2 fire event articles currently nominated for deletion.
1978 Holiday Inn fire and North Division Street explosion. Both articles are multiple fatality fires, but both articles could also certainly stand improvement and sourcing. Jclemens (talk) 04:07, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I am trying to create an Article Alerts section for this wikiproject so that individual wp:AfDs need not be listed manually here. Any interest anyone?  Ottawahitech (talk) 23:34, 23 August 2016 (UTC)please ping me
 * I would be happy to follow such article alerts. Alas, I do not know how to code them. Jclemens (talk) 23:39, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for responding. Even though I would love to take credit for it, I am afraid all I did was follow instructions on how to create an alerts section (no coding involved). I placed it at: WikiProject Fire Service, but hope someone will find a better location for it -- it is now placed right at the top of this project's page. Ottawahitech (talk) 20:43, 24 August 2016 (UTC))please ping me

Featured article review Hamlet chicken processing plant fire
nominated Hamlet chicken processing plant fire for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 09:33, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Plants Chaparall and Fire Task Force
WikiProject Plants Chaparall and Fire Task Force "WikiProject Plants Chaparall and Fire Task Force
 * User:PPdd

Would anyone like to join me in starting a WikiProject Plants Chaparall and Fire Task Force, perhaps to be a joint project with the Fire Service project? Once there are five names above, we can start our task list. E.g., task 1- photo and upload to wikimedia commons images of all phases of chaparral fire cycle, and all seasonal phases and coloration changes (colors now being researched at the Stanford Department of Plant Biology Carnegie Institute for remote identification of specimens and their species), task 2 - make illustrations of chaparral anatomy and morphology across species which "makes it chaparral".

Sign your name in the quote box above.

I am working with UCSC's Arboretum director (and California Native Plant Society president) on a donation to them of a 10 acre real estate parcel with a approx 3500 foot elevation Sierra Azul maritime chaparral stand on it and surrounding it (his group's specialy), a riparian corridore through it fed by an artesian spring with the closest watershed being Yosimite (and a view of half dome in the far distance from the parcel) and will be going hiking in Griffith Park with Richard Halsey and some Hollywoodsters next time he is in Hollywood, if there are any super-esoteric questions you want me to hit them up on re maritime chaparral, Santa Monica Mountain Chaparral, or San Diego area chaparral, or if you want to join us and add your expertise. PPdd (talk) 15:30, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Category emptying
Looks like someone is systematically emptying subcategories in Category:Fires by year. Can some with more knowledge look into this and see it real fires are being removed from the subcategories? WP:CFD would be the correct place to empty categories. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:02, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Without specific examples, it's hard to tell. Do you know of an article that used to have a particular category that was removed? --Daysleeper47 (talk) 20:46, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

New articles in Spanish
As an FYI, es:Departamento de Bomberos de Houston has been started. If anybody would like to help, please controbute to the page WhisperToMe (talk) 18:15, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

WTC 7 RfC
I have submitted a request for comment on a subject of interest to this WikiProject. Please feel free to provide your input on the issue.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 17:32, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Ubx suggestions
If editors would like I can tailor a new template for the Wikiproject Fire Service, similar to this userbox, which also may be useful to some members. Penyulap  ☏  00:46, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

WP:FIRE and WikiProject Fire Protection
Hi all, I don't know if any of you have seen this RM about the differing destinations of WP:FIRE and WP:Fire, but an IP suggested your project would be a better destination for these redirects than WikiProject Fire Protection, which the former currently redirects. Since that project is semi-active, I think I agree. Does it make sense for you to merge with the project? There could be a unified WikiProject Fire, Fire Protection could be a task group within Fire Service, however it works out, this seems like a good idea in principle. --BDD (talk) 17:14, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Infobox wildfire (update layout)
Hello. I was wondering if anyone in this project might be against an update of the Template:Infobox wildfire layout? No content would be changed, it would just be a conversion from the current raw wikitable-based coding to employ the metatemplate used by Template:Infobox. This results in a much neater and more compact infobox as you can check in this before and after examples. In case you agree, I would confirm individually that its implementation did not affected negatively any of its transclusions. Cheers! Parutakupiu (talk) 19:39, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Firewoman listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Firewoman. Since you had some involvement with the Firewoman redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). -- 70.50.148.105 (talk) 11:16, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Active members?
Any active members here? Would love some input on something. --Zackmann08 (talk) 21:34, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Sure, I'll help. What do you need? --WikiTryHardDieHard (talk) 01:36, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Just trying to do some cleanup. I just redid the infobox fire department and would love some feedback on the new format. I am also looking into cleaning up the pages for different types of fire apparatus. For example, I think that Brush Truck & Wildland fire engine should be merged. At the very least both need some cleanup. I also wanted to try and clean up the Fire fighting template to include more stuff. Any feedback, help or ideas? I'm all ears! --Zackmann08 (talk) 02:16, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Just some initial thoughts: I have only ever heard of "brush trucks" and have never heard the term "wildland fire engine". This is coming from a municipal firefighter. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the subject, but there are essentially two different worlds in American firefighting - wildland and structural. The federal government mainly covers the wildland side, and city fire departments cover the structural side. However, sometimes city firefighters have to fight early stage wildfires before the federal firefighters arrive. During this intial stage, a brush truck is used. These are relatively small, nimble vehicles with a small amount of water reserve. The federal firefighters arrive and use "wildland fire engines". These vehicles are larger and have a increased water supply for the extended period which they will be fighting the wildfire.


 * I think a merger would be beneficial, perhaps under the title Wildland Firefighting Apparatuses. This could include both types of vehicles, and should draw a clear distinction between the two.
 * I'll continue assessing possible revisions. --WikiTryHardDieHard (talk) 03:03, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I like your idea! I am somewhat new to the world of firefighting. I am an engineer by trade (computer, not the kind that rides in a fire truck. :-p ) Any who, I think you defiantly have the right idea. Put the two on one page with subsections. I'm out for the evening but I'll start working on that tomorrow. I'll probably do it in my user-space first. Have a good evening. --Zackmann08 (talk) 03:28, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Requested Photos
To all active members, let's work to improve photo propagation and proliferation across fire-service articles. Post here if you know of articles that could really benefit from a photo. I'll begin.
 * The Pig - Blunt forcible entry tool. --WikiTryHardDieHard (talk) 00:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Collaboration with WikiProject Oregon?
WikiProject Fire Service participants are welcome to collaborate with WikiProject Oregon, which for the month of March is tasked with populating the category Fire departments in Oregon. See here for details, plus a list of fire departments in the state. Please consider jumping in and helping with our efforts to improve coverage of fire service in Oregon. Thanks so much! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:45, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
This article is in need of a bit of a refurbishment, and some citations. If anyone who is good with this type of thing is around, please give it a go. RGloucester — ☎ 17:34, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Need additional eyes on an article
I need some additional eyes on the article May 2014 San Diego County wildfires and its talk page. This is a heavily-viewed article about a current wildfire situation, but there only appear to be two of us watching it. I particularly need help with a content dispute, discussed at the talk page. The other editor insists on adding "arson" to the "ignition sources" in the infobox, even though the article contains no mention of arson, and no reliable or official source has claimed that any of these dozen or so fires were started by arson. I think it's important that we get this right but I don't want to edit war. Someone knowledgeable please take a look, evaluate the evidence and arguments, and weigh in. Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 20:34, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * That content dispute has been resolved, but I would still appreciate some additional pairs of eyes on that article. --MelanieN (talk) 14:48, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Fire Service at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Fire Service articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 03:31, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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PulsePoint
Anyone interested in collaborating on an article for PulsePoint? I'm planning to start writing one shortly and would love any assistance that people care to give. :-) --Zackmann08 (talk) 19:15, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox UK Fire and Rescue
Template:Infobox UK Fire and Rescue has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox fire department. Given that this template is withing the scope of WikiProject Fire Service, you are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Article in dire need of citations
I don't edit wikipedia much, found this article in need to citations though. Nearly all uncited in the second half.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interagency_hotshot_crew --128.84.124.159 (talk) 07:06, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Anybody following?
This is basically a test. Is anyone following this page? If so can you please comment? I am trying to find other users that are interested in this WIkiProject. --Zackmann08 (talk) 17:11, 7 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm here! RegistryKey(RegEdit) 03:18, 13 June 2015 (UTC)


 * praise the heavens!!! There is another!! I shall drop you a message. --Zackmann08 (talk) 23:15, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Leschi (fireboat)
I just finished this article on the fireboat Leschi if anyone is interested in reviewing it for GA. I think it could probably use a skilled editor's eyes. LavaBaron (talk) 03:57, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposal on a similar project page
I have added a proposal here to the emergency medicine and EMS task force project talk page. I would appreciate your input. Magnolia677 (talk) 14:29, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Firewatch
There's a discussion relative to firewatch and fire watch. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:49, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

The Pig listed at Requested moves
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Channel Tunnel - 2006 & 2015 fires
Both of these fires need coverage, while the first was a minor inconvenience it did bring up issues that were still unresolved at the time of the 2008 fire. The 2015 fire is the most recent, but it exposed a new issue related to the HGV transporters being used. The official reports into both fires are linked below.

RAIB 2006 Channel Tunnel Fire Report

https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/fire-on-a-hgv-shuttle-in-the-channel-tunnel

RAIB 2015 Channel Tunnel Fire Report

https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/fire-on-board-a-freight-shuttle-in-the-channel-tunnel

Graham1973 (talk) 07:50, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Grease Fire Safety
The grease fire page recommends that a grease fire "be put out by smothering it with a fabric like material." I think it should be revised to stress that the best way to put out a grease fire is to cover it with a lid, but I am not an expert on fire safety. I don't want people to burn their house down because they start throwing t-shirts on grease fires. Does anyone have an authoritative citation on this, perhaps a fire safety manual? Thanks. Coldsalmon (talk) 17:34, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Antarctic Fire Department
I've noticed that there's no page for the very noteworthy Antarctic Fire Department. (http://www.antarcticfire.org/) I'm sure someone more qualified than me could start that article. Cheers!

Historic fire stations in Alabama
Unfortunately, in my opinion, the following stubs were all merged into Historic fire stations of Birmingham, Alabama, despite being independently notable: Feel free to expand any of these pages, which currently serve as redirects, if standalone articles are appropriate. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 19:50, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Fire Station No. 3 (Birmingham, Alabama)‎
 * Fire Station No. 6 (Birmingham, Alabama)‎
 * Fire Station No. 10 (Birmingham, Alabama)‎
 * Fire Station No. 11 (Birmingham, Alabama)
 * Fire Station No. 12 (Birmingham, Alabama)
 * Fire Station No. 15 (Birmingham, Alabama)
 * Fire Station No. 16 (Birmingham, Alabama)
 * Fire Station No. 19 (Birmingham, Alabama)
 * Fire Station No. 22 (Birmingham, Alabama)
 * Wylam Fire Station

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List of fire stations
Hi there! Coming from editing on U.S. National Register of Historic Places articles, I've taken on the task of building a List of fire stations. So far I have compiled all the items within Category:Fire stations world-wide, plus I added a lot more U.S. historic ones that are redlinks, from my reviewing a National Register database for likely suspects based on the places' names. I'm proceeding to create articles for all the redlink ones.

There no doubt are notable historic firehouses within historic districts that I don't know about yet, and there must be architecturally significant modern firehouses in some places. Help identifying and adding mentions of notable fire stations anywhere in the world would be very much appreciated! Cheers, --Doncram (talk) 06:28, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

List of firefighting monuments and memorials
Somewhat related to the new List of fire stations, please see also new List of firefighting monuments and memorials. This covers all current members of Category:Firefighting memorials, a category created by an edit of User:Johnbod back in 2012. The advantage of an explicit list is that it can include redlinks and photos and sources and more. It so far covers one redlink, for the national memorial on the topic in Ottawa, Canada, which surely deserves an article. Additions would be welcomed.--Doncram (talk) 18:36, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Backdraft video
Please, can we get a video example? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:18, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * the slowmo guys on youtube made a good video of backdraft in slow motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyCCWuO0mQo Mattvoza (talk) 18:16, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
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Nomination of Portal:Fire for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Fire is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Station wear article
I am working on redoing the station wear article and turning it in to firefighter uniforms. as a fire fighter i know what the uniforms are and how they look but am having trouble finding articles that are cite able for it. if anyone knows of a article that can assist me i would greatly appreciate it. thank you in advanced Mattvoza (talk) 15:27, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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Kyoto Animation arson attack GA review in progress
Please consider helping out with fixing the items listed here. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 00:30, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The article passed and was promoted! Thanks to for helping out and  for pointing out areas of improvement. ··· 日本穣  ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:18, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

RfC on Australian bushfire seasons
There is an RfC on whether future Australian bushfire season article template start and end dates should use the official season or the beginning and end of significant fires. Please comment here --Pete (talk) 19:22, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Changes to department infobox
I've just added generic parameters to Infobox fire department that will enable more adaptable terminology to be used in the infobox for the variety of circumstances where the current parameter list doesn't suffice, without the need to extend the parameter list yet further for every new case. I have preserved the existing infobox structure in all respects and tested the changes thoroughly, so I am not expecting any problems with existing transclusions, but I would advise all watchers of this page to keep an eye out for issues.

I'd appreciate others running their eye over the updated documentation as well to be sure that it's quite clear how to use the new parameters and what the effects of implementing them will be. Check Country Fire Authority for my own example implementation. Triptothecottage (talk) 08:47, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Scope/definition of "fire extinguisher"
Our fire extinguisher article seems to be be specifically about portable equipment consisting of a container of fire-extinguishing agent. In the history section is a sentence about an 1872 invention of Thomas Martin, whose patent is titled "Improvement in fire-extinguishers". However, the invention it describes is instead a type of standpipe and related apparatus installed in a building--definitely not a personal-use portable tank. Various popular-press websites associate him with the origination of the modern "fire extinguisher" type of equipment. As the story gets passed along, even a successive chain of well-meaning editorial changes and modern use of phrases whose meaning was different long ago might lead to false claims. This isn't my field of expertise...could someone else help disengangle the meaning vs wording and make sure we are not mis-explaining it? DMacks (talk) 15:40, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Waldbaum's supermarket fire
I have just posted a new article on the 1978 Brooklyn fire that killed six firefighters. I invite your attention to it. --PaulinSaudi (talk) 09:44, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Mickelberry Sausage Company plant explosion
While I am here, I might as well mention this article too. --PaulinSaudi (talk) 09:46, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Category:Fire Service articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion
Category:Fire Service articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 18:09, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Status
It would be nice to activate this project. I can't think offhand of one that is more capable of performing a service to the public, by updating and maintaining articles on fires. Coretheapple (talk) 21:56, 17 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree, I don't know why this has to be marked as inactive. Penndyl (talk) 18:54, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm still creating articles on historic fire stations in Columbus, Ohio... See Columbus Division of Fire. ɱ  (talk) 14:20, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

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Articles for deletion/Arrest of Jacob Gregoire
An article relevant to this project is being considered for deletion. (talk) 19:03, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Article for Deletion
There is an ongoing discussion at Articles for deletion/Fire stations in Columbus, Ohio that may interest members of this WikiProject. ɱ (talk) 22:40, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

7 World Trade Center featured article review
I have nominated 7 World Trade Center for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:14, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Proposal to merge WikiProject
Hello to any WikiProject participants 🙂 As the creator of a few firefighting-related articles, it is a shame Wikipedia at the moment has no active firefighting WikiProject, so I would like to change that. I am proposing to merge the currently defunct Fire Service and Fire Protection WikiProjects into one encompassing WikiProject Firefighting. I am prepared to do all the technical work to make this merge happen, but I wanted to ask first if there was any opposition to the change. I feel a united firefighting WikiProject would better centralize discussion on the topic, and would appeal to a larger/more active community. Any feedback is appreciated, and if none is received on this or the WikiProject Fire Protection talk pages, the merge will go through in one week. Cheers!  Johnson  524  00:11, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Whiddy Island disaster
Whiddy Island disaster has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:50, 28 December 2023 (UTC)