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Fire Prevention and Investigation

Product liability, federal incentive programs could enhance community safety

Well, there we go again. Just as they did last year, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has once gain increased their systematic behind the scene maneuverings at the state legislative levels in many states, demanding that the legislatures pass laws that prohibit all jurisdictions from enforcing the requirement for installation of residential fire sprinklers in all new homes.

As you know, the fire prevention proponents and the fire service representatives worked...

Contributors

Jeffrey Pindelski

Jeffrey Pindelski
A Simple Tool for Complicated Tasks: The Rescue Loop

This articles depicts a few of the effective ways that a prussik or rescue loop can be utilized to make operating on the fireground safer or more efficient.

Today's fire service operates in a very volatile environment -- both on and off the fireground. A question that we have to continually ask is: are we ready for these challenges and how do we overcome them? type='node' cid='35419' />This articles depicts a few of the effective ways that a prussik or rescue loop can be utilized to make operating on the fireground safer or more efficient.

Vincent Dunn

Vincent Dunn
Dunn's Dispatch: Accountabilty on the Perimeter
Do you know how to discard smoldering material out a window without killing or seriously injuring a fellow firefighter?

Burton Clark

Burton Clark
The Princess, the Governor and the Firefighter
Since the first National Fire Service Safety Stand Down Day in June 2005, too many firefighters have been killed and injured in because they did not wear their seat belts.

Frank Brannigan

Frank Brannigan
Know Your Enemy #49
Frank Brannigan continues us on his photo tour of the hidden dangers of building construction that firefighters may encounter when fighting fires.

Robert Dube

Robert Dube
WMD – Where Is Your Focus?
Expand your WMD training to include explosives and collapse, and do it now. The terrorists are ready, are you?
 

Recent Podcasts

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 01:20

The Apparatus Architects look at a number of topics this month and their guest, a Los Angeles Fire Department Captain, talks about the LAFD's operations and apparatus assignments.

Friday, February 5, 2010 - 12:35

In this episode of the Leader's Toolbox, host Dr. Richard B. Gasaway focuses on the Everyone Goes Home initiative and the Courage To Be Safe program.

Chief Gasaway interviews Ron Dennis, executive director of the Arizona Fire Chiefs Association and the training liaison for the Everyone Goes Home initiative. He also talks with Billy Hayes, director of community affairs for the Washington, DC, Fire Department and the advocate manager for the initiative.

 

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One of the things that I have enjoyed as a fire safety educator has been learning all of the innovative things that other educators from across the country do to help keep those in their communities fire...

 

Upcoming TrainingLive Webcasts

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Jeffrey Pindelski

Monday, August 31, 2009 - 03:00

Rapid intervention and firefighter survival skills are often considered advanced, but do you have a firm grasp on the basic skills of firefighter removal? This webcast, based on case studies and proven statistics, will enable you to learn essential rapid intervention rope rescue concepts that can also be applied to basic, everyday fireground survival.

 

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