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  • Fire Prevention Week 2012: It's Time to Get Ready
    Fire Prevention Week 2012: It's Time to Get Ready

    Once each year comes Fire Prevention Week. It is always the week of Oct. 9, the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. It was on Oct. 9, 1871, when a conflagration occurred in the United States, now known as the Great Chicago Fire. It lasted for 27...

    Article • August 26th, 2012

  • Firefighter trapped in Dive Team Emergency
    Firefighter trapped in Dive Team Emergency

    Performing other than fire-related rescues is nothing new for the fire service. From a child’s head caught in a banister to a person trapped in heavy machinery, a firefighter literally never knows what the next run will be. Because of that, we have...

    Article • July 1st, 2012

  • Fire Destroys Historic Hotel in Punxsutawney
    Fire Destroys Historic Hotel in Punxsutawney

    More than 100 firefighters worked for nine hours to control a six-alarm fire that destroyed a historic hotel in Punxsutawney, PA, on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. As fire conditions worsened, the interior attack was abandoned and crews were ordered out of...

    Article • July 1st, 2012

  • Firehouse.com Weekly Drill: No. 75

    Drill #75: Intelligence/Investigations Readers will get a refresher course on the often forgotten section of the Incident Command classes – that of Intelligence/Investigations. The drill is designed to be a single page of information to...

    Article • June 24th, 2012

  • Rekindles 6/12
    Rekindles 6/12

    MIDDLETOWN, CT: JUNE 1, 1912 – Wesleyan College suffered its second fire in two weeks when flames broke out at around noon in the Chi Psi Lodge. It was believed an electrical problem ignited the third-floor fire, which extended to the roof...

    Article • June 1st, 2012

  • Two-Alarm Fire Destroys Historic Lodge in North Tonawanda
    Two-Alarm Fire Destroys Historic Lodge in North Tonawanda

    On Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, a two-alarm fire destroyed the historic Elks Lodge in North Tonawanda, NY. The fire presented water-supply challenges to firefighters. The hydrant grid system terminated in the area of the fire, causing pumpers to rob water...

    Article • June 1st, 2012

  • Talking with People: Yes, It's That Easy
    Talking with People: Yes, It's That Easy

    Current economic difficulties are negatively impacting the fire service in many ways. Today, governmental managers can do things to the fire service that five or 10 years ago would have been unthinkable – publicly questioning and even attacking fire...

    Article • June 1st, 2012

  • Prevention Points: Ripped from the Headlines

    Reading the news headlines of 2011, I have to wonder if we in the fire service have learned anything; especially after recently learning that the buildings which claimed the lives of two of our brothers in Chicago and another in Worcester had...

    Article • May 4th, 2012

  • Demonstrating Your Fire Prevention Program’s Worth – Part 2

    Part one of this article discussed the reasons we incorporate evaluation as part of our programs and resources available for program evaluation. Part two will discuss the road to effective evaluation and the types of evaluation. As mentioned in the...

    Article • October 10th, 2011

  • Using Fire Prevention Week 2011 to Build a Solid Program

    Fire Prevention Week 2011 (Oct. 9 – 15) is closing in and too many fire departments will approach this important opportunity in a buckshot-reactive manner.

    Article • September 12th, 2011

  • Be the Change in Fire Prevention

    You must be the change you wish to see in the world. This quote from Mohandas Gandhi has motivated me throughout my life. It led me to pursue an education degree to become an elementary school teacher. It encouraged me to join the fire service as a...

    Article • August 31st, 2011

  • Demonstrating Your Fire Prevention Program’s Worth – Part 1

    This is the first in a series of articles that discuss the importance of measuring the effectiveness of fire prevention and public education programs. This process of evaluation will provide the stakeholders with information regarding a program’s...

    Article • August 1st, 2011

  • NFPA's Take: Sprinklers in New Homes: Why Should Firefighters Care?

    Fire in the home poses one of the biggest threats to the people in your community. Nearly 3,000 people per year die in U.S. home fires. In 2009, 81 percent of people who died in residential fires, did so in one- and two-family homes. Seventy-eight...

    Article • July 12th, 2011

  • Budget Wise Fire & Life Safety Education Tips

    We know that fire and smoke damage more than just people’s possessions. They destroy memories, wreak financial havoc, and cause emotional and physiological stress — and the water we use to extinguish the flames only adds to the destruction. So...

    Article • June 30th, 2011

  • Decontaminating Investigation Equipment: Clearing Traces of Ignitable Liquids
    Decontaminating Investigation Equipment: Clearing Traces of Ignitable Liquids

    During a recent court case, the following question was asked by the defendant’s attorney. “What method of decontaminating your fire investigations equipment was used to prevent cross contamination of the scene?” As you can imagine, this...

    Article • June 27th, 2011

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