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Funding and Grants

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

Gary Ludwig

Gary Ludwig
Swine Flu: Something Else That is Going to Kill Me!

A month from now, it would be interesting to see where things stand.

Keep this number in mind. 36,000! This is how many people die approximately each year in the United States from seasonal flu according to the Centers for Disease Control website.

Jonathan Bastian

Jonathan Bastian
A Final Farewell
This month will be the last in which I am the regular author for the column.

Edward Hartin

Edward Hartin
Reading the Fire: Heat and Flame
While all of us have a commonsense understanding of heat and temperature, these concepts are frequently misunderstood.

Charles Werner

Charles Werner
New Technology for Firefighter Accountability and Safety
Information, including vital signs and location, is transmitted and disseminated over a wireless hierarchal mesh network.

miwieder

miwieder
Fire Department Tanker Safety - Part IV
The need to develop an effective driver training program and to enforce fire department standard operating procedures and policies cannot be overstated.
 

Recent Podcasts

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 00:20

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.


Michael Wilbur and Tom Shand start the show, recorded at Firehouse World in San Diego, with two listener questions. Shand asssists a firefighter looking to add safety doors to an open cab apparatus. Wilbur offers advice to a assistant chief who is looking for response policies for carbon monoxide alarms.

Friday, February 5, 2010 - 11:35

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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Chase (JP Morgan-Chase to be official I guess) is holding a contest through Facebook with people voting for funding to go to their favorite charities. The prizes are donations to the winning charities ranging from $25,000 up...

 

Upcoming TrainingLive Webcasts

Webcast presenter

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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