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Legal Fire Prevention: Social Media

With the recent spate of demotions, terminations, and litigation related to the use of social media, John K. Murphy takes another look at firefighters' assumptions about use of these products.

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Academic Accreditation Details for "Firefighting 2.0"

Thinking for pursuing further education to advance your firefighting career? Mike Ward has some important considerations for firefighters to keep in mind when considering their options.

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Barn Fire Tactics and Strategies

Most firefighters would think barns hold nothing but farm equipment and livestock, but sometimes people live inside these structures. Chris Willis discusses tactical considerations for barn fires.

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Response to Natural Gas Emergencies

Natural gas leaks and explosions are growing problems across the country, James Kutz writes, and firefighters need to be on alert when responding to "nuisance" calls involving natural gas leaks.

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2013 Call for Proposals

Want to teach next year at FDIC? Submit your HOT, workshop, or classroom proposal. The deadline for submissions is July 6, 2012.

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Training on Positive Pressure Attack

This class will show attendees the five steps we used to take positive pressure attack from discussion at the staff level to implementation at the operations level. Also discussed will be the difficulty of overcoming the typical fire department culture that is resistance to change. Attendees will see how we made our most skeptic and vocal members become believers of PPA.

Training Officer Boot Camp

Learn how to conduct an on-the-scene training needs assessment, how to take those results and put them in action, and how to create training opportunities every day.

Lightweight Roof Ventilation -- A Viable Option?

Ventilation operations can eliminate or minimize the hazards from the modern thermal layer and flashover for firefighters, but these operations are often conducted within or on top of buildings -- this should raise a concern about ventilating modern building construction, which offers less time before collapse when it is exposed to heat and/or fire. This presentation will consider the viability of ventilating these roofs in light of firefighter safety concerns.

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Roundtable: Ventilation Science and Firefighting

Are you aware to the NIST studies concerning ventilation, and have those results altered or changed your current tactics as it relates to ventilation? S...

FDIC 2013 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Want to teach next year at FDIC? Submit your HOT, workshop, or classroom proposal HERE. The deadline for submissions is July 6, 2012.

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Fire in VA Town House Ignited By Smoldering Cigarettes

05/18/2012

Cigarette butts thrown into a plastic trashcan in a bathroom caused a fire in a townhouse in the 9400 block of Beech Drive in the Georgetown South Community in Manassas, Virginia.

Legal Fire Prevention: Social Media Policy

05/18/2012

With the recent spate of demotions, terminations, and litigation related to the use of social media, John K. Murphy takes another look at firefighters' assumptions about use of these products.

TX Firefighter Dies During Training

05/18/2012

A Brazos County (TX) firefighter died during a training exercise Thursday evening, according to a news report.

Maintaining a Sharp Edge: Ladder Company

05/18/2012

David DeStefano explores some of the ways firefighters can maintain and improve their basic ladder company skills.

Your Fire Department's Public Image

05/18/2012

Your fire department's public image can greatly impact its ability to function. Tom Warren provides tips on how to demonstrate your department's importance to the community at large.

Video: AZ Wildfire Still Spreading

05/18/2012

A wildfire raging north of Phoenix now covers 12 square miles, and officials expect the fire to continue spreading.

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Time Out -- Out of Time: Flashover and Residential Sprinklers

Deputy U.S. Fire Administrator Glenn A. Gaines asks the fire service to reconsider the assumption that residents have about five minutes until flashover during house fires.

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Maintaining a Sharp Edge: Ladder Company

David DeStefano explores some of the ways firefighters can maintain and improve their basic ladder company skills.

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Los Angeles Fire Stations Open Doors to Public

Fire stations across Los Angeles marked Fire Service Day by opening their doors to the public for tours, demonstrations and other family-friendly activities to increase awareness of services offered by the departments.

Tech Zone

Mutualink Names Tom Ridge to Advisory Board

Mutualink, Inc., a Connecticut-based company specializing in advanced interoperable communications solutions for public safety and emergency management personnel, has named Tom Ridge, the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and 43rd governor of Pennsylvania, to its advisory board, the company announced today.

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FDIC 2013

Apr 22, 2013 - Apr 27, 2013

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Do you routinely solicit advice from a fire brigade at a working fire in an industrial facility?

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Corbett's Trivia: Theater Fire Deaths

Where were the most people killed in the Brooklyn Theater Fire of 1876 and the Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903?