Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The Ins and Outs of EVTCC Certification Tests
Watery Saves
By Steven Orusa
Public safety diving operations are extremely complex and involve a tremendous amount of risk, but those risks can be eliminated, avoided, shared or mitigated....
Training Is Top Priority for NIC
As part of its mission, the National Incident Management System Integration Center will be looking to improve the quality of NIMS training. We're not...
In Nature vs. Nurture, Learned Behaviors Rule
[ Bruce Evans ]
This year my department hired a retired battalion chief for a line firefighter/paramedic position. After 20 years with a major urban department, he chose...
All-Hazards Training, 2002 March 2004
While the U.S. Fire Administration has been offering an all-hazards training curriculum since 1981, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, heightened awareness...
LSU to Host Terrorist Aftermath Rescue Training
Online NIMS Training Launched
Department of Homeland Security
Countywide RIT Plan Puts LODD Initiative Into Action
Bttn. Chief Mike Cardwell, Deerfield (Ohio) Fire & Rescue
The leaders of 15 fire departments in Warren County, Ohio, are implementing a countywide rapid intervention team program intended to follow through on one of 16 national initiatives to reduce firefighter fatalities....
International Symposium on Tunnel Safety & Security Slated
Elk Grove (Calif.) Opens $3 Million Training Facility
Showtime in Harrisburg, Pa.
Janet Wilmoth, Editor
I recently attended Fire Expo, sponsored and entirely run by Lancaster County Firemen's Association at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, Pa. More than 20,000 attendees flooded the complex grounds this year....
Risk Management More Than Fireground Safety
[ Mike Chiaramonte ]
A small volunteer fire department noticed an increase in kitchen fires and food-on-the-stove calls from their elderly population. They developed a fire...
Small Town, Big Woes from Wild Blue Yonder
[ John Linstrom ]
Aircraft incidents like blimp crashes or airshow tragedies are rare, but even jurisdictions without an airport can have a small craft fall from out of...
It's Time to Extend the Military Metaphor
[ Ronny J. Coleman ]
The fire service often has been characterized as paramilitary, ever since the corps of vigils, Rome's original fire brigade, was a unit of the Roman army....
FEMA Offers New Course to Enhance Community Coordination for Emergencies
DOJ Grant to Install Kansas First Responder Network
Primedia Workplace Learning
New York Undercover
By Cynthia Kracauer
Providing a realistic architectural environment for fire training that reflects local building types is a desirable goal. Unfortunately, the traditional...
Courses of Change
By Dr. William Jenaway
Recently the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation conducted the Firefighter Life Safety Summit, focusing on the prevention of line-of-duty deaths....
Calculated Risk
By Dominic Colletti & Larry Davis
Why does the fire service today, more than ever before, need to perform live-fire training using acquired structures? According to a May 2003 USFA report,...
Training Accounts for 10% of Fatalities
An analysis of statistics from the U.S. Firefighter Fatality Database shows that while the number of firefighter fatalities have remained fairly consistent...
N.H. to Install Statewide Training Network
Thanks to a $1.7 million grant from the state's department of justice, New Hampshire soon will have a statewide first responder communications and training...
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....
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