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Drills | Simulations | Fire Instructor Development | Live Burns | Props | SOPs | ISFSI | FSF
New Jersey Division of Fire Safety Releases Report Related to Firefighter Injury
While participating in a training drill, a New Jersey firefighter, Rebecca Crawford was injured when a sand cast alum...
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Fire Training Drill: The Survival Essentials - Do Not Enter
The third drill in this series offers a chance to discuss conditions that would be present at a fire scene that would...
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Fire Training Drill: The Survival Essentials - Evacuation
The second installment of our firefighter survival drill series feature focuses on the conditions and actions firefig...
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Fire Training Drill: The Survival Essentials - The Mayday
Every firefighter must know how to prevent getting into hostile situations or environments. In this week's training d...
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Program Places Inspectors on Shift Work
On January 1, 2009, the Baltimore City (MD) Fire Department (BCFD) started a program that placed fire inspectors on s...
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Firefighter Training Drill: My Fire Department 101: Engine Company Maintenance
Part 3 of this firefighter training drill series on engine company work will focus on the maintenance of the engine i...
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Holders, Keepers, Standpipe AlternativesSeveral techniques presented below may help you get the job done more efficiently. |
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Fire Training Drill: My Fire Department 101: Engine Company Operations
Part 2 of this firefighter engine company training drill series will focus on basic engine company operations.
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Fire Training Drill: My Fire Department 101: Engine Company Equipment
This weekly series of firefighter training drills will allow the user to insert their own department-specific informa...
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Firefighter Training Drill: Word of the Day, Part 3Download the third installment of Forest Reeder's word-of-the-day drills for training your firefighters. |
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Firefighter Training Drill: Word of the Day, Part 2Download this second installment of Forest Reeder's word-of-the-day drills for training your firefighters. |
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Firefighter Training Drill: Word of the Day
A simple word of the day can be used to challenge all job levels to expand their fire service vocabulary and kn...
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Firefighter Training Drill: Troubleshooting Hoselines
In this fire training drill, students will imagine themselves part of a fire attack crew advancing a hoseline when ce...
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Firefighter Training Drill: Troubleshooting Fireground Operations (Activated PASS Device)
Regardless of whether it constitutes a Mayday situation, firefighters must identify and determine the reason for an a...
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Firefighter Training Drill: Troubleshooting Fireground Operations: SCBA
In this fire training drill, discuss the list of potential problems that can occur with self-contained breathing appa...
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Construction Concerns for Firefighters: Insulated Concrete FormsGreg Havel discusses modern concrete forms for building construction and how these components could affect firefighters on the fireground. |
Training Days: Burn Chamber ScenarioFirefighters practice searching for a victim in a "garage" in this training scenario related by Tom Kiurski. |
Roundtable: Fire Apparatus Driving and Data CollectionIs your fire department using data obtained from recording devices installed in fire apparatus for firefighter driver training? Share your replies with other firefighters from around the nation and world. |
New Jersey Division of Fire Safety Releases Report Related to Firefighter InjuryWhile participating in a training drill, a New Jersey firefighter, Rebecca Crawford was injured when a sand cast aluminum large diameter hose appliance catastrophically failed. |
Free Training Event on the Dangers of Fire SmokeKnow Your Smoke: The Dangers of Fire Smoke, a free training event for firefighters and others exposed to fire smoke, will be held in Los Angeles, California on January 27 and 28, 2012. |
Tactical Safety: Marginal Effort Equals Marginal ResultsTactical safety is achieved by putting forth maximum effort and by having highly tuned-in firefighters and commanders who deploy their troops with purpose on the fireground, Ray McCormack writes. |
NFPA 1403 Live-Fire Evolutions at Fire Service Training CentersLive fire training is an essential part of a firefighter's education, but there are significant differences between training at gas-fired versus non-gas-fired structures. Mike Gurr takes a closer look at this training. |
Building and Roof Training PropThe Cheesequake Fire Company in Old Bridge, New Jersey, but this training prop that simulates a regular, one-story building with a realistic-height second-story window and five foot parapet wall. |
CSB Statement on Four Year Anniversary of the Catastrophic Imperial Sugar ExplosionTuesday, February 7, 2012, marks the fourth anniversary of the massive sugar dust explosion that killed 14 workers and injured 38 others at the Imperial Sugar Refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia. The loss of life continues to be mourned in the community. |
ISFSI Credentials First Professional Fire InstructorThe International Society of Fire Service Instructors is excited to announce the first successful credential of the Society’s Professional Fire Instructor designation. |
Firefighter Training: New Free Fire Scene Communications Program AvailableThe Firefighters Support Foundation's newest free firefighter training program defines communications and its elements, discusses best practices, and presents tactics that ensure that information is being effectively disseminated on the fireground. |
ICMA TO ADDRESS FIRE/EMS CAPABILITY IN HAITI
February 1, 2012
The following information was released by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA):
USAID
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