Fire Chief

Friday, August 22, 2008

Hot Drills 

By Pat McAuliff

Training officers often miss the point of live-fire training — learning....

DHS Provides First Responders $34.6M in Equipment, Training 

The Department of Homeland Security will award $34.6 million in equipment and training to first responders across the nation as a part of the FY 2006 Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program. DHS awarded more than 2,000 direct assistance grants to ensure that law enforcement and emergency responders receive specialized equipment and training to meet their homeland security mission. ...

Web Site Offers Lightweight Construction Info 

The American Forest & Paper Association, in partnership with the U.S. Fire Administration, is offering a comprehensive Web-based educational program developed to enhance firefighter awareness of the performance of different forms of lightweight construction components during fires to create a safer operational environment for the fire service....

DHS Launches Online Infrastructure Training 

The course addresses the importance of protecting the critical infrastructure and key resources, and provides an overview of many of the key concepts of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. ...

Dupes of Complacency Head Back to Basics 

By John Linstrom

In the past months, five Southern California firefighters have died and two were seriously burned in two separate fires. Although the fires themselves...

Industrial Strength 

By David White

Firefighters don't always need an alarm tone to know it's time for work. Suddenly, a terrible concussion echoes across the equipment bay. Every pane of...

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...

Learning Curve 

By Jeffrey Pindelski

The fire service is made up of adults who possess unique abilities and weaknesses. Instructors must be able to understand and recognize their students'...

Critical Realism 

By G. Jake Jaquet

What are the most important aspects of fire training buildings? For an expert opinion, Fire Chief posed that question to the Illinois Fire Service Institute...

Change with Head, Heart and Hands 

By John Linstrom

The totality of the contemporary management books, current theories, lessons and commentary from the provide some context to assess where a training program...

VOCS, TargetSafety to Provide Online Training Grants 

A partnership between the International Association of Fire Chiefs' Volunteer and Combination Officers Section and TargetSafety, a private corporation providing online firefighter training, will be making available grants totaling $1 million to volunteer and combination departments in the United States...

NFA Offers New Courses for 2007 

The National Fire Academy will pilot two new courses for its curricula in 2007: Fire and Life Safety Plans Review (P 132) and Fire Protection for the Built Environment....

As Decades Change, So Does Teaching 

[ John Linstrom ]

Attempting to cover the past 50 years of fire training in a single column is a difficult task; so much has transpired. The foundation of many of our training...

Well-Covered 

By G. Jake Jaquet

Israel Fire Commissioner Shimon Romach reveals that training and versatility are critical....

Safe Returns 

By Jeffrey Pindelski

Make sure firefighters train in rapid intervention while taking the proper precautions....

NFA Online Training to Move to New Site 

The U.S. Fire Administration’s National Fire Academy has announced that changes related to online access to the NFA training courses ("Q" courses) are planned for this fall, when a new system will be put in place....

A Common Picture is Worth More than Words 

By John Linstrom

How we manage information and what we do with it makes the difference between success and failure. In administration, project management and emergency...

Team Effort 

By Becky Robinette Wright

The scene: An 8-foot deep, T-shaped construction trench near Lorton, Va. A worker is below grade in a trench box near where the excavation forms the A...

Preserve the Spirit, Promote Good Attitude 

By Mike Chiaramonte

A young volunteer firefighter recently was presented with an opportunity to attend a top-notch fire training academy that would give him an excellent...

Firefighter Training Deaths Increase 

The proportion of firefighter deaths that have occurred during training has increased while the number of firefighter deaths overall has declined over the years, according to a recently released National Fire Protection Association report....

USFA Offers Mayday Training CD 

The U.S. Fire Administration has released two mayday courses — Calling the Mayday: Hands-On Training for Firefighters and Firefighter Safety: Calling the Mayday — on a single CD-ROM...

FETN to Offer Free Training During Stand Down 

In support of the National Firefighter Stand Down, the Fire and Emergency Training Network is providing free access to specific training programs directed toward firefighter safety...

Motivation Can Be Its Own Reward 

By John Linstrom

For all instructors, the most important task is getting students to “turn off” distracting thought processes and engage in learning....

USFA Launches Wildland Fire Training Web Site 

The U.S. Fire Administration has announced a new Web site with training information for firefighters who may be involved in wildland or wildland-urban interface firefighting....

Exercise in Restraint 

By Eric Eastep & Briget Eastep

Those of us who teach fire-related courses are lucky to have motivated and well-behaved students, but every once in a while a student presents a discipline...

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