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December 22, 2017
Sunset date for AFG/SAFER grant programs pushed out to 2024.
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September 2018
In departments staffed by volunteers, morale is the most important aspect. While creating a course to help volunteer leaders learn more about the business of running a department, our team came up with the idea for a “Chief People Officer.”
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September 2018
No organization can flourish without the right people in place, doing the right things at the right time. It’s our responsibility to set our members up for success; we must define our expectations and hold employees accountable for those results.
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September 2018
Most fire departments are structured around a traditional model and leaders have a firm foundation to build on; this article focuses on continuous training, team spirit and influence.
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August 20, 2018
Many who become firefighters do so to help their communities and experience the excitement of fighting fires. But as firefighters move up the ranks, the required skill set changes from pulling hose or cutting open a roof to managing a business.
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August 20, 2018
Does your department have a policy that providers must be restrained when the ambulance is moving? If providers need to remove their restraints, is it policy for the ambulance to pull off the road and completely stop while treatment is rendered?
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August 2, 2018
This series has addressed the elements of a fire department’s planning approach. This third entry in the series briefly introduces the concepts of tactical/operational planning and financial planning.
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August 2, 2018
The exodus of senior leaders and their experience creates a critical need to prepare the upcoming generation to lead. Although succession planning is challenging, the reward is an agency prepared to meet its mission with confidence and competence.
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July 16, 2018
Do you know what standards of cover and cooperative-efforts planning are and how to use them to improve the effectiveness of your planning initiatives?
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July 16, 2018
It's said we should leave an organization better than we found it. How can we do that if we don’t seek out a next generation of members who come in the door prepared to take the organization to that next level? Or if we don't nurture that in them?
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June 28, 2018
Few departments have successfully implemented a succession-management program, so to have the greatest success in promotions and job performance, aspiring chiefs and officers must know how to reverse-engineer succession management.
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January 10, 2019
The IAFC Hazmat Center is proud to announce that they received the Community Safety–Emergency Planning Response and Outreach (CS–EPRO) Grant from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration in November 2018.
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January 4, 2019
At a public-education event, a young Asian boy said to me, “Wow, I didn’t know you could be a firefighter; could I be a firefighter too?” I'll never forget his words; this was the first time he had seen a firefighter who looked like him.
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January 3, 2019
There's no evidence that requiring college degrees will help advance the EMS industry, yet this same requirement could create significant obstacles to caring for patients.
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