Friday, May 16, 2008
AFSA Announces 20th Annual Scholarship Contest
The American Fire Sprinkler Association has announced it will begin accepting entries for its 2006–2007 National Scholarship Contest on Aug. 29. Ten contest winners will each receive $2,000 scholarships....
FAMA Scholarship Awarded to OSU Student
The Fire Apparatus Manufacturers’ Association has announced that Jon Ryan Hamill, a student at Oklahoma State University, has been selected to receive the 2006 FAMA Scholarship Award....
Grow Your Own Leaders
By Robert Avsec
For the past 20 years Chesterfield County (Va.) Fire and EMS has been developing and implementing leadership training programs that focus on fostering...
Hassle-Free Approach Aids in Retention
By Ken Farmer
When is being a volunteer just too much hassle? When the paperwork gets too heavy? When your duties get in the way of what you want to do? That's a hassle....
Critical Tasking Can Increase Efficiency
By Ronny J. Coleman
Many of you have heard the tongue-twister How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Tongue-twisters of this sort are designed...
Tacoma Names New Chief
Ron Stephens joined the Tacoma (Wash.) Fire Department in 1977 as a recruit at the age of 23. After 29 years of climbing the ranks, he was appointed chief of department on July 27....
Initial Attack or Mop-Up?
By Jon B. Holcombe
Imagine for a moment that you're the captain at a combination station. The tones have just dropped and you're waiting for volunteers to arrive. You're standing at the door when three cars pull up. The responders jump out and run in to put on their gear...
Firefighter Tops List as 'Most Prestigious Occupation'
Firefighter, doctor and nurse are viewed by U.S. adults as the most prestigious occupations an individual can have, while business executive, stockbroker and real estate agent are jobs at the opposite end of the spectrum, according to the 2006 Harris Poll measuring public perceptions of professions and occupations....
Houston Firefighters Form Private Fund-Raising Foundation
Houston firefighters, in need of equipment and technology the cash-strapped city's budget can't afford, are following the example of the Houston Police Department and taking the matter to the citizens they protect. On July 24, the Houston Fire Department announced it had established the Fire Fighters Foundation of Houston to serve as nonprofit agency to facilitate firefighter fund-raising efforts directed at city residents....
9/11 First Responder Claims Multiplying
The New York Post reports that legal actions filed against the City of New York in connection with the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have tripled in the past year. More than 1,100 notices of claim, which potential plaintiffs are required to file before suing the city, were filed against the city during the fiscal year that ended June 30....
Grant Funds NFFF Firefighter Life Safety Resource Kit Program
A $329,000 grant from Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. is making it possible for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to provide its Firefighter Life Safety Resource Kits to more than 30,000 U.S. fire departments....
USFA Releases 2005 Firefighter Fatality Report
The U.S. Fire Administration has released a report detailing the 115 firefighter fatalities it classifies as on-duty deaths that occurred in the United States in 2005....
Senate Votes to Replace FEMA with New Federal Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency would cease to exist — to be replaced by an agency supporters say would have a greater ability to plan for disasters — if an amendment to the domestic security budget bill approved July 11 by the Senate is approved by the House. ...
Risk Management Needs More Than Lip Service
Risk management in the fire service is getting a lot of attention these days. And we’ve all read and heard mantras like “you have to risk a lot to save a lot,” but what do they really mean? How much risk should we assume?...
Chief to Step Down so Son Can Join Department
San Jose Fire Chief Jeff Clet has announced he will step down as chief so his son can accept a job offer from the fire department. A citywide policy adopted last year prohibits family members from having a role in hiring an immediate family member or even indirectly supervising one....
Entire Oregon Department Resigns
The village of Bonanza, a southern Oregon community of just over 400, is depending on fire protection from neighboring communities after the July 6 resignation of the Bonanza Fire Department’s chief and the rest of the department...
McElfish Selected as Sandy Springs Chief
Jack K. McElfish has been named the first fire chief of the newly incorporated city of Sandy Springs, Ga....
Middleton Named New Savannah Chief
Charles Middleton will be the next chief of the Savannah (Ga.) Fire Department, according to Savannah City Manager Michael Brown....
2006 SAFER Applications Fall
The Department of Homeland Security has released statistics on the grant applications received during the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response application period that closed June 30. The more than 1,700 applications represent a drop from last year, which saw nearly 3,000 applications. ...
Philadelphia Firefighters Win Contract Arbitration
A Philadelphia arbitration panel has awarded Philadelphia Local 22 of the International Association of Fire Fighters several significant contract provisions following testimony from IAFF staff and Local 22...
Balancing Act
By Robert R. Rielage
In the 1950s, veterans returning from war were looking for the American Dream: a stable job, a new car and their own home. New roads and suburban communities...
Search for Values
By Richard Carrizzo & Kelly Gerling
In the decades prior to the 1990s, the Southern Platte Fire Protection District was an all-volunteer fire department in the Kansas City area. Morale was...
Get on Board
By Ben Allison
How would you like extra savings for your budget, extra personnel for your department and more benefits for your on-duty personnel? The Extra-board Employee...
Never Give Up
Chief Alan Brunacini has been a member of the Phoenix Fire Department since 1958. After holding the positions of firefighter, engineer, captain, battalion...
Residents Want Fire District Dissolved
A group of Gordon Heights Fire District residents, unhappy with paying what are reportedly Long Island's highest fire taxes, have begun circulating a petition to dissolve the district....
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