Saturday, May 17, 2008
Broadcast Views
By Dale Lyman
Improve your public-outreach efforts by filling the dead air on your local government-access TV channel....
Illinois Sets Home Day Date
A coalition of Illinois business and fire service leaders have scheduled Illinois Fire & Rescue Industry Home Day for Thursday, June 1, 2006. The Illinois Home Day is an extension of the fire service awareness program held April 6 in Washington, D.C....
Home Day Events Offer Perspective to Legislators
During the week of April 17, Home Day events across the country offered congressional leaders the opportunity to tour emergency services manufacturing facilities and the chance to learn more about the emergency service products in their home states....
Emergency Smoke Hoods Recalled
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Brookdale International Systems Inc. of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, has announced a voluntary recall of the company’s emergency escape smoke hoods....
HSC Receives $1 Million for Fire and Life Safety
The nonprofit Home Safety Council will receive $1 million as one of 34 recipients of funding from the most recent round of DHS Fire Prevention and Safety grants. The grant will support key components of HSC’s ongoing efforts to build capacity for fire and life-safety education in America....
USFA Releases Fire, Older-Adult Report
Adults age 65 and older are two-and-a-half times more likely to die in fires than the overall population, and as Americans age their fire risk increases....
USFA Releases Fire and the Older-Adult Report
Adults age 65 and older are two-and-a-half times more likely to die in fires than the overall population, and as Americans age, their fire risk increases, according to a new report issued today by the U.S. Fire Administration....
One More Gold Star
Following last week’s distribution of gold stars, I heard about one more that is noteworthy. Fire Inspector Rick Barnes of the Battle Creek (Mich.) Fire Department, wrote about his fire chief, Larry Hausman. It seems the chief believed that every one of the 19,000 residences in Battle Creek should have smoke detectors installed. Hausman went after and succeeded in obtaining a federal grant of $420,000 along with the matching funds of $220,000....
A Pound of Cure
By Rick Trembath
South of Glacier National Park in northwest Montana lies the community of Bigfork, a textbook wildland-urban interface community. The 2000 U.S. Census...
2005 Hit List
The year is almost over, and for many not soon enough. It’s been a year of incredible disasters and bad news, but it’s also been a year of change and inspiration. I’d like to give out some little gold stars for some of the good things in 2005...
Michigan Creates Bureau of Fire Services
Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm has issued an executive directive establishing a road map for the creation of a new agency that will be responsible for the fire service-related aspects of the state's homeland security and emergency response efforts....
SFPE Updates Position on Fire Protection Systems
The Society of Fire Protection Engineers has updated its position statement, “The Engineer and the Technician — Designing Fire Protection Systems.”...
NO TIME FOR RECREATION
By Patricia Winter, Deborah Chavez and James Absher
Examining how the public views fire should be of great importance to decision-makers, especially how the public sees fire management's impact on recreation...
Candles Spark Fire Prevention Theme
The National Fire Protection Association is urging the public to focus on candle safety during its Fire Prevention Week 2005, Oct. 9-15. Emphasis is placed...
Still Effective
By Lois Pokorny
Oklahoma's arson figures continue to trend downward, thanks to a juvenile fire-setter intervention program originally sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice....
NFA Rolls Out Juvenile Fire-setting Course
The National Fire Academy has announced a new one-week resident course designed to meet NFPA 1035, Juvenile Firesetting Intervention Professional Standard,...
Fire Safety Mixes Pizza, Motor Sports
Rescue 1 Fire Safety for Kids, a nonprofit fire safety program run by firefighters in Grand Rapids, Mich., is combining some of kids' favorite things...
Safety on Campus a Priority
The Center for Campus Fire Safety went on the offensive on Capitol Hill in May, holding a summit to seek solutions to college student deaths in fires...
USFA Releases the Dangers of Fireworks Report
Department of Homeland Security
Time to Choose Love or Respect
[ Ronny J. Coleman ]
Who doesn't love the fire service? A few years ago, an article in USA Today stated that firefighters were among the most trustworthy and credible public...
Bus Wrap Puts Fire Safety on the Road
The Greensboro (N.C.) Fire Department, in collaboration with the Greensboro Transit Authority, unveiled a GTA bus on May 2 as part of a new initiative...
On-Air Anxieties
By S. Christopher Suprun
Listening to a comedy CD recently, I paid attention as Jerry Seinfeld described two fears that most people have every day. The first fear everyone has...
Campus Fire Safety Advocates Turn Heat On Washington
Pat West, Senior Editor
Bus 'Wrap' Puts Fire Safety on the Road
Greensboro (N.C.) has put fire safety on the road in a transit bus "wrapped" in fire safety messages. The bus will primarily serve the city's high-risk area for fires....
National Arson Awareness Week Begins
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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