Obtaining a positive water supply often is considered a mundane assignment on the fireground. For smaller fires in residential and commercial occupancies, the task doesn’t require much thought.

It's much easier to talk the talk behind the veil of anonymity and the confines of a keyboard. That much was clear when a firefighter received criticism online for seemingly struggling to open a fire ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Surely the most joyous image of summer in the city is that familiar scene of kids playing in the spray of a New York ...