Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Leadership
How Departments — Even Volunteer — Can Win a 2011 SAFER Grant
The grant lets departments win grants to hire their first paid person. It also will pay for implementing untraditional recruitment and retention programs....
Diversity Should Be Management’s Priority, Not Just Labor’s, IAFF Rep Says (with Related Video)
Pat Morrison said there’s something wrong if fire departments lack diversity and fail to represent the community they serve. ...
USFA Releases 2012 Harvard Fire Executive Fellowship Program Application Procedures
The 2012 Harvard Fire Executive Fellowship Program application procedures have been released and national and international senior fire executives who have demonstrated significant career accomplishments can now apply for the program....
Relay Your Message and Pass the Baton
In order to develop future chiefs, candidates have to be running with us. This is the best case I have ever made for delegation of authority. If you truly are interested in succession planning, one of the things that you should be encouraging is a more transparent insight into the fire chief’s job....
Incident Command
Indy Safety Chief Says Cities Must Address Abandoned-Building Problem
To protect firefighters and its citizens, Indianapolis now has a system in place to demolish structures after a fire occurs if it can be proven that there is damage to the structural integrity of the building. ...
NFPA Reports Address Alternative-Energy Technologies, NEC (with Related Video)
The NFPA has developed two industry reports on alternative energies that will be discussed and reviewed at the Alternative Energy Technologies and Electrical Safety Standards symposium in Atlanta on Dec. 6....
Fugate Explains National Response Framework to House Transportation, Infrastructure Committee
Fugate highlighted FEMA's recovery capabilities and programs that can be provided when a state requests federal assistance for presidentially declared disasters of all sizes, including catastrophic events and terrorist attacks. ...
Get Ready, Here They Come
When tens of thousands of protestors descended on Madison, Wis., the city's fire department effectively coordinated a multijurisdictional response that included state and local law enforcement. It was able to do so because it planned ahead — and also because it had plenty of experience with large-scale civil-unrest events....
Management & Administration
Diversity Should Be Management’s Priority, Not Just Labor’s, IAFF Rep Says (with Related Video)
Pat Morrison said there’s something wrong if fire departments lack diversity and fail to represent the community they serve. ...
Treat the Soil to Grow Diversity in the Fire Service
When Rosemary Roberts Cloud was assigned to her first station, she realized the Atlanta Fire Department had picked “new flowers but they hadn’t treated the soil to make sure they could flourish.”...
Relay Your Message and Pass the Baton
In order to develop future chiefs, candidates have to be running with us. This is the best case I have ever made for delegation of authority. If you truly are interested in succession planning, one of the things that you should be encouraging is a more transparent insight into the fire chief’s job....
Volunteer Incentive Act Not Dead Yet
S.933 would extend the exemption on taxation of property-tax benefits for volunteer emergency responders and increase the value of other benefits that volunteers can receive without having to report or pay income tax from $360 per year to $600 per year....
Public Education
Writing the Next Chapter in a True Success Story
ampaigns geared toward those “hard-to-reach” groups within our population, who either remain unaware or for other reasons choose not to have or maintain smoke alarms for their protection, have been tried with varying success....
NFPA Report Discusses Smoke-Alarm Effectiveness, Lack of NFPA 72 Compliance (with Related Video)
The National Fire Protection Association recently released its “Smoke Alarms in U.S. Home Fires” report, which found that two-thirds of home fire deaths between 2005 and 2009 occurred in properties without working smoke alarms....
NFPA, USFA Offer Free Winter Fire Public-Awareness Materials to Fire Departments (with Related Video)
The U.S. Fire Administration and the National Fire Protection Association launched their second annual "Put a Freeze on Winter Fires," a free fire public-awareness campaign developed to help fire departments educate constituents about the high prevalence of winter fires and mitigation strategies. ...
FEMA Launches Mobile App for Disaster Preparedness (with Related Video)
The app lets citizens enter their family emergency meeting locations; review safety tips on what to do before, during and after a disaster; view a map of shelters and disaster-recovery centers across the U.S.; and read the agency’s latest blog posts on disaster incidents and response....
