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May 15, 2013

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How to establish RIT/RIC training

A sample RIT/RIC training program helps prepare departments for their most difficult day....More
Dec. 20, 2012

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Houston creates video to help citizens survive an active-shooter incident

"Run, Hide, Fight, Surviving an Active Shooter Event" provides guidelines on what civilian employees should do if an active shooter event occurs in the workplace or at a public building....More
Sep. 17, 2012

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Illinois' Fire-Training Center Grows with the TImes

How do you train nearly 60,000 firefighters in one year? You give them almost everything they need in one facility....More
Dec. 1, 2011

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Train Local, Act Global

A multinational exercise gives search-and-rescue teams a chance to practice complex technical operations while building relationships and finding confidence....More
Sep. 1, 2011

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Experience is the Best Teacher

After setting up a cold-water and ice-rescue training program, a small volunteer department discovers that most of what it initially thought was wrong....More
Jul. 1, 2011

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What Goes Up Must Come Down 1

Here's a primer for ensuring safe and effective response to emergency incidents involving elevators....More
Jul. 1, 2011

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A Troubling Paradox

Water and flood emergencies affect virtually every community in the land, but most fire departments are ill-prepared to handle them....More
Mar. 1, 2011

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Into the Deep

Quick thinking contributed to a heroic rescue of two victims trapped in a fully engulfed pleasure boat — just another day's work for Miami's oft-called and heavily trained dive-rescue team....More
Jan. 1, 2011

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Train Like You Play

Apply the same procedures and standards that you use for confined-space incidents to your training regimen to improve safety....More
Sep. 1, 2010

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On Ice

Make sure responders aren't left cold by their ice-rescue training....More