Friday, December 5, 2008
Management
Collected from our print and electronic editions below is content related to leadership issues, budgets, legal matters, and firefighter fitness and personal safety.
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Completed Staff Work
By Ernst R. Piercy
Chief officers must cross the T’s and dot the I’s before proposing solutions to the chief. ...
Maintenance is Voluntary for Volunteers
By Philip Stittleburg
The plaintiffs argued that they were injured while performing a “duty ordered to be performed by a superior or commanding officer.”...
Senators Introduce Volunteer Incentive Protection Act
The Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Act would prohibit the federal government from taxing benefits provided to volunteer fire and emergency medical services personnel by local and state units of government. ...
A New Breed
By Janet Wilmoth
Fire chiefs of this new breed are more likely to run their departments like a business rather than a typical government agency....
Get Serious About Out-of-Service Criteria
By Chris Cavette, In Service Senior Editor
When it comes to apparatus maintenance, there are ordinary problems and there are really serious problems. Defining the types of problems that are serious enough to take an apparatus out of service should be part of every department's preventive maintenance program....
Promotional Progress
By Gary E. Curmode, Rick Brazill & John H. Leslie Jr.
The path to career growth can be intimidating without a clear understanding of objectives and prerequisites....
Colorado Springs Scales Many Peaks
Successful EMS, public-education, GIS and wildfire programs make the Colorado Springs (Colo.) Fire Department one to watch....
Common Thread
By Cliff Jones
Safety for emergency personnel is woven throughout the fire department accreditation self-assessment process....
To Pursue Progress, Ask Yourself What If?
By Ronny J. Coleman
Look at the fire service’s past: Almost everything we do today, almost every advance we’ve made, has been the result of someone’s dream....
Ambulance Chaser
With the rise in fire department patient transport, NFPA apparatus chair Donald Frazeur sees the need to look beyond current GSA standards....
Is Your Department Worth Its Salt?
By Ronny J. Coleman
A long time ago, people weren't compensated with dollars and cents. The concept of money was preceded by the idea of value. In early societies, those...
Take Small Steps with Young Recruits
By Ken Farmer
In November, this column discussed the stages of life and identified how each of those stages resembled the stages in a firefighter's career. I'd like...
Future Force
By Ken Burris
Creating a five-year strategic plan for a single fire and emergency services organization is difficult at best; forecasting the entire fire and emergency...
The MICAS Touch
By Chris Couper
Midday on a hot August afternoon in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Sacramento, a welding accident at a remote industrial site ignited a small grass...
Audience Command
By Scott Ferguson
Since Ben Franklin's Philadelphia volunteers first raised a pint in their local pub, firefighters have shared tales of perilous adventures and offbeat...
All Due Respect
By Paul J. Antonellis Jr.
One of the worst duties a fire chief has to perform is the delivery of a firefighter death notification. Unfortunately, fire chiefs across the country...
A Long, Hard Road
By Debra H. Amesqua & Lori Wirth
One of the most indelibly violent images of the 20th century was captured in 1963 during a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Ala. On May 3, 1,000 children...
Why Should We Care?
By Elmer Greene
Fire departments need to be proactive in their approaches to investigating fire scenes, particularly with respect to arson. They must strive to involve individuals in the affected areas with the investigation of fire scenes and show them how they are directly affected by fires in their neighborhoods...
Diagnosing 'Command Atrophy'
By I. David Daniels, MHRM, MIFireE
If an officer’s command skill isn't regularly used and exercised, it can dwindle to the point that it affects not only the individual but the organization....
Beyond First Aid
By Mary Beth Michos
A comparison of EMS 50 years ago to today brings an appreciation for some big advancements....
Simply, The Best
By Janet Wilmoth
Career Chief of the Year Alan Brunacini has long been on the short list of the nation’s top chiefs....
Extra, Extra
By Steve Prziborowski
To prevent something you wouldn’t want your community to read all about, look at your decision-making....
Satisfaction Guaranteed
By Thomas D. Griffith Jr.
A career department survey found that it takes more than money to keep employees happy....
Under The Hood
By Scott Ferguson
Invest in emotional maintenance to keep your members free of stress and running smoothly....
Heads of the Class
By Bill Lowe & Alex Cohilas
EFO graduates show their skills with presentations, grant proposals and more....
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