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January 19, 2024
Company Officers Section (COS) announces the opening of their board nomination period.
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July 17, 2017
The key to a successful and sustainable drone program is to have a supporting infrastructure in place before that first flight.
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July 17, 2017
The fire service is integral to homeland security, and chiefs must know the hot issues. To help, the T&HS Committee offers an in-depth look at the issues as well as the resources available from the IAFC. This is the sixth article in the series.
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June 30, 2017
Many think that all a company officer needs to do is apply the SOGs/SOPs and discipline those who don’t abide by them. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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June 30, 2017
Understanding your department’s internal personality will help you understand how its external image is perceived. Bad attitudes, poor morale, sloppy attire: If you don’t recognize it, others quickly will.
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June 15, 2017
In the midst of discussions of brotherhood, courage, honor and self-sacrifice, the revelation that a firefighter committed suicide as a reaction to cyberbullying was for some eye opening, for others validation of their lived experience.
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June 15, 2017
The fire service is integral to homeland security, and chiefs must know the hot issues. To help, the T&HS Committee offers an in-depth look at the issues as well as the resources available from the IAFC. This is the fifth article in the series.
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June 1, 2017
There are many untapped, talented people who would be ready to play on our team and work for our mission if we would just prepare the workplace to recognize and harness their diverse and varied talents.
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May 16, 2017
As if fire-based EMS doesn’t have enough issues with its name brand of service delivery, I want to tell you about two new challenges.
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May 16, 2017
When considering risk-reduction programs, fire departments typically target the residential populations in their communities. There’s good reason for this approach.
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May 16, 2017
Performance metrics help to establish expected performance levels. Without them, organizations may drift along with no perception of quality performance. Without substantiating data, any perception they do have is ultimately just an opinion.
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September 12, 2023
IAFC, VCOS and Deccan International announce departments selected to receive grant
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September 25, 2023
IAFC is monitoring the situation in the U.S. Congress for potential shutdown of federal government operations.
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September 18, 2023
Crash Responder Safety Week, observed November 13-17 this year
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