Thursday, August 7, 2008
ATF, IAAI Launch Web-Based Training
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the International Association of Arson Investigators announced the launch of CFITrainer.net at the IAAI's...
Shared Grant to Develop VR Training
A U.S. Fire Administration grant will be used to fund a continuation and expansion of a computer simulation training program for fire inspectors. The...
Paperwork Grounded
By Fred Itule
Peterson Air Force Base has a history of leadership in implementing and managing new technologies. In 1982, Air Force officials activated Air Force Space...
Researchers Find Hot Spot with Simulation
By Douglas Page
A hot spot in fire research has broken out in the development of simulators designed to anticipate the previously unpredictable behavior of wildfires....
OREIS 6.0 Released, Effort to Install Rural Departments Begins
Pat West, Senior Editor
Forest Service Develops Megafire Model
Federal wildland fire agencies will be changing their strategies to battle wildfires, especially on fighting according to Jerry Williams, director of...
ODP's Basic Awareness Training on CD-ROM
The DHS Office of Domestic Preparedness is distributing free CD-ROMs of its Weapons of Mass Destruction Basic Awareness Training to emergency response...
Wireless Network Hands Off Data at High Speeds
By Douglas Page
The first and geographically largest deployment of mobile mesh networking technology for use by a civic public safety entity will go on the air in April...
Wet and Riled
By Don Oliver
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but we should make exceptions when a fire department and its city are hit with a decade full of tornadoes, hurricanes...
Free GIS Tutorial Available on CD-ROM
FIRE CHIEF Staff
The U.S. Fire Administration is distributing a free CD-ROM-based tutorial to help fire departments implement a geographic information system and its applications for displaying their data reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System....
The archaic NFIRS abacus
Janet Wilmoth
The audit, ordered by FEMA's Office of the Inspector General, was done by KPMG LLP, an independent accounting firm. The audit's objective was to determine...
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