Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Into Africa
By Ronny J. Coleman
The Ghana National Fire Service tries to adapt to the country’s major growing pains with limited resources. ...
Thermal Care
By Anthony Piontek
Thermal imagers can be deployed for limitless uses. They key is training firefighters to identify the possibilities. ...
Pa. Appoints Training Officer
John Fowler has been appointed training officer for the Mahanoy City (Pa.) Fire Department....
Free Fire System Training
Fire-Lite Alarms, part of Honeywell’s Life Safety Group, plans to host more than 25 free educational sessions throughout the United States....
MSA Earns OSHA Status
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration certified Mine Safety Appliances' facility in Cranberry, Pa. at the highest level, in its prestigious Voluntary Protection Programs....
Late Chicago Chief Honored
Chicago-area firefighters and emergency personnel joined representatives of The Dow Chemical and Union Pacific Railroad to honor the late John Eversole, the former chief of special operations for the Chicago Fire Department....
Higher Calling
By Glen Mayhew & David Hoback
A Virginia department partnered with an allied-health college to create a degree and internship program for firefighter/paramedics....
Safe Practice
By Pano Koukopoulos
Staying safe means embracing the ABCs of safety and treating a drill like the real thing. ...
Structural Integrity
Janet Wilmoth janet@firechief.com
Thermal extremes are a major factor in live-fire training.… Anybody looking to remedy the problem has to understand concrete and thermal movement....
Flawed Progress
By Rick Ennis
With fewer fires and an arguably misplaced focus on system over solution, fire chiefs may need to revisit fireground strategy and tactics. ...
ISFSI Names New Board Members
Effective April 11, Eddie Buchanan will take over as president of the International Society of Fire Service Instructors. Buchanan will relieve Chief Timothy E. Sendelbach, who has led the organization for the last five years. ...
Leadership Stopgap
By Mark Nichols
An Arizona battalion chief academy seeks to prepare the next generation of fire service leaders before they assume those roles....
Filling Member Wants Serves Agency Needs
Kenneth Richards Jr.
Word travels fast in the fire service, and if a department has a history of treating volunteers like second-class citizens, the department will struggle to get new members....
Inspectors Must See with Firefighters' Eyes
[ Mike Chiaramonte ]
It is the fire inspectors who get into the community on a regular basis. Every inspector must look at all occupancies they inspect as though they were fighting a fire in that establishment....
Study Group
By Chris DeChant & Jim Higgins
A new joint-use public safety training facility uses state-of-the-art props to enhance both team and individual preparedness....
Braced for Attack
By Phil Causer
United Kingdom emergency-response agencies drew up a CBRN plan, then put it to the test....
First Breath
By Michael J. Wallace
SCBA gives firefighters the power to save lives. And although the early versions weren’t as light, durable or reliable as today’s SCBA, their effect on firefighting was just as profound....
No Room for Ad-Lib
John Linstrom
The attitudes condoned at the training division will infect the entire organization. Are these messages and attitudes positive or negative?...
Disaster Training in the E.U.
By Holger de Vries
International large-scale disaster training reveals how much is needed to overcome systemic differences....
APCO Issues Training Officer Call for Comment
The standard specifies the minimum training requirements of all personnel assigned to a one-on-one communications training function in an emergency communications environment while recognizing the need to supplement basic competencies with agency-specific information and existing equipment-use parameters....
Texas Promotes 'Attack from the Black' Program
The Attack from the Black program is designed to counter the mindset of many firefighters who feel that grass fires aren’t serious and can be fought without taking adequate safety precautions. ...
USFA Offers New Online Training System
The U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Academy has launched a new Web-based online training system called NFAOnline, which offers free training and education programs....
FEMA Announces $29.1 Million Available for Preparedness Training
The Competitive Training Grant Program provides funds to support training initiatives that are national in scope and further the department’s mission of preparing the nation to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from catastrophic events. ...
Chicago Fire Department Goes on YouTube
The Chicago Fire Department has posted videos to YouTube to promote fire safety programs to a younger generation. The instructional videos discuss saving lives in dormitories and commercial and residential high-rises. ...
Hot Drills
By Pat McAuliff
Training officers often miss the point of live-fire training — learning....
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