Online Learning

This webinar explains IAFC’s National Volunteer Workforce Solutions (VWS) initiative to improve volunteer recruitment and retention by creating a more diverse and inclusive fire service.

The purpose of this webinar is to provide real world advice and examples of how to implement change at your department.

Participants learned how shifts in fire/smoke characteristics due to changes in home design, building techniques and furnishings incorporate the latest technologies that are expected to be in the market place in 2019. Presenters' discussions included "multi-criteria" sensing technology and how these new alarms will be less likely to alert from nuisance sources such as cooking smoke.

This webinar, in partnership with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provides an overview of CHEMM and its organization. CHEMM is a single point source for a wide array of information on chemical emergency response, organized to make it easy for responders to search and access the information they need.

This webinar, in partnership with the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), provided an overview of the current state of national trends in firefighter behavioral health based on qualitative and quantitative research findings.

Discussions included new technologies that may prove effective at preventing fires for gas stove cook tops and new requirements for smoke alarms designed to help reduce unwanted alarms.