Sept. 24, 2025 Wing leadership gets hands-on with firefighters U.S. Air Force Col. John Ethridge, 49th Wing commander, and U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. William Ford, 49th Wing command chief, participate in Hands-on-Holloman at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, Sept. 10, 2025. Members of the 49th CES demonstrated how to use fire equipment as a way to
April 24, 2018 Another tool in the toolbox It is a cool, fall day and the sun shines through the car window warming your face. Suddenly, the truck jerks and tumbles off the road. Your teammate is thrown from the truck, and flung out of sight. You exit the truck and find your teammate critically injured. He is presumably dead. There is no
May 1, 2017 Once a fire fighter, always a fire fighter Imagine spending 50 years of your life dedicated to public service. Most people cannot imagine this, and neither did a man who did it. On April 28, 2017, Harvey Stevens, 49th Civil Engineer Squadron assistant chief of fire prevention, hung his helmet in the fire station for the last time at Holloman
June 13, 2016 Scheduled power outage aids in preventative maintenance The base experienced a pre-scheduled power outage to repair areas of concern May 21. The Civil Engineer Maintenance, Inspection and Repair Teams identified five areas of concern during an assessment in April, and members from the 49th Civil Engineer Squadron electrical shop prepared to rectify these