Monday, October 6, 2008
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...
National Fire Plan Awards Honor Best of 2003
The National Fire Plan Conference and Wildland Fire 2004 held March 2-5 in Reno, Nev., hosted more than 1,000 attendees, 87 exhibitors and 100 poster...
Dining With VIPs
Janet Wilmoth, Editor
I happened to stay over at the National Fire Academy this week and wound up having dinner off campus one night at the Ott House in the hamlet of Emmitsburg. If you've spent any time at the NFA, you probably know the Ott House......
ODP Offers WMD Basic Awareness Training on CD-ROM
A Staff Report
For a limited time,the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Domestic Preparedness is distributing a free CD-ROM of its Weapons of Mass Destruction Basic Awareness Training to emergency response agencies. Even the shipping is free....
'Kidde Fire Trainers' Launched
A Staff Report
Symtron Systems Inc., Symtron GmbH, ICS International Code Services and IFTE International Fire Training Equipment Limited are now offering their products under the name “Kidde Fire Trainers.”...
Hale Schedules Pump Classes
A Staff Report
Emergency apparatus technicians and fleet maintenance personnel will have 10 opportunities in 2004 to attend Hale's Pump Maintenance and Operations Seminar in Conshohocken, Pa....
Pierce Announces Service Training Classes
A Staff Report
Pierce will offer several training classes in the maintenance and repair of its components and systems this year at its headquarters in Appleton, Wis....
E-ONE Offers Maintenance Training
A Staff Report
E-ONE will offer training classes on standard and multiplex electrical systems, aerials, engines, compressed-air foam systems, paint repairs and many other topics in 2004....
Who Needs a Ph.D.?
By Burton A. Clark, Ed.D.
The idea that the fire service needs to be studied, practiced and researched at the doctoral level is not new. In 1868, Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, fire chief...
Give Crews Industrial-Strength Know-How
[ John Linstrom ]
All fire departments should be trained in industrial firefighting applications. Most firefighters become familiar with their retail districts while running...
Regional Workshop Schedule for '04 FIRE Grants Announced
FIRE CHIEF Staff
The Department of Homeland Security's Office for Domestic Preparedness announced it was posting the schedule today for regional workshops across the country providing guidance on 2004 Assistance to Firefighters Grants....
USFA Provides 'Roadmap' for Training Incident Management Teams
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday announced a training “roadmap” for the nation’s fire and emergency services that wish to develop local and regional/metropolitan Incident Management Teams....
In the Heart of Texas
Janet Wilmoth, Editor
The EMS "mannequin simulator" was just one of the many marvels I discovered during my recent visit to Texas A&M Fire School's Emergency Services Training Institute, a Disney World of training for the fire service....
Enrollment in EMI Distance Learning Soars
FIRE CHIEF Staff
Driven by the events of Sept. 11, demand for distance learning at the Emergency Management Institute jumped to 182,000 enrolled students in 2003, a 120 percent increase since fiscal year 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reports....
Dwight Williams to Address Airport Firefighting Conference
FIRE CHIEF Staff
Dwight Williams, president of Williams Fire & Hazard Control of Texas, will join the United Kingdom's Group Fire Adviser of BP at the International Aviation Fire Protection Association's first international conference held in the United States....
IAFC Announces FRI Schedule, Top Speakers
FIRE CHIEF Staff
Fighter pilot Scott O' Grady will keynote a general session at Fire-Rescue International 2004 in New Orleans in August. The International Association of Fire Chiefs opened registration and announced the top speakers and schedule this week for the conference, expected to draw some 16,000 chiefs this year....
Common Sense 2004
Janet Wilmoth jwilmoth@primediabusiness.com
The Department of Homeland Security has one more year under its belt. The FIRE Grant Program was moved to the Office of Defense Preparedness. The SAFER...
Safe Building Design Institute at EMI
FEMA will hold four seminars on hazard mitigation in building design during a two-week summer institute in July. The seminars cover protective design...
Look to New Learning Strategies in New Year
[John Linstrom]
Another new year, another set of training goals. How did you fare last year? Did you meet all of the realistic training goals for your organization? If...
KEYS TO THE KINGDOM
By Chuck Burkell
With only 3,000 graduates and current students, the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Officer Program is the most elite fire leadership program in...
EENET Schedule Changes Coming in 2004
FIRE CHIEF Staff
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced that the Emergency Education NETwork will be "retooled” in 2004. One of the first of many changes you'll see as the satellite training program run by the U.S. Fire Administration is integrated with the Department of Homeland Security will be changes in the January through March 2004 Schedule....
FEMA Course in Leadership & Decision-Making for WMD Incidents Offered
FIRE CHIEF Staff
The Noble Training Center is holding a Healthcare Leadership and Administrative Decision-Making in Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Incidents course on Jan. 12, 2004....
Deadline for NFA Enrollment is Dec. 31
Dec. 31 is the deadline for applications for the U.S. Fire Administration National Fire Academy's second semester residential program, which begins April 1, 2004, and ends Sept. 30, 2004....
Exercise in Utility
By Ronny J. Coleman
Training used to be so simple. You had a person called an instructor, who taught subjects to a group of people called students. It didn't make much difference...
Simulator Goes to Head of Class
By Douglas Page
As every firefighter knows, to learn how to fight a fire you have to train in an actual blaze. The question is, how do you properly prepare for that first...
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