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U.S. EEOC Updates Technical Assistance Clarifying COVID-19 As Disability
December 17, 2021
The technical assistance includes answers to questions about how illnesses caused by COVID-19 relate to the ADA definition of "disability."
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Company Officer Leadership: Fire-Based EMS Systems
May 4, 2017
There are multiple service-delivery models employed all across the United States. Depending on the area or territory served, government structure, political climate and available funding, each model alternative has its place.
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EMS Transport: Coming Full Circle
May 4, 2017
In the past, many people were transported in cars rather than ambulances. How many over the years died because no one opened an airway, no one suctioned vomit or blood from an airway? How many removed from car crashes without proper immobilization?
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IAFC, AMR and ACEP Team Up to Save Lives from Sudden Cardiac Arrest
April 25, 2017
Three of the largest names in emergency medical services aim to train people in bystander CPR during World CPR Challenge, May 21-27
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Emergency Medical Service: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
March 1, 2017
We know change is inevitable: we deal with it daily, in both our profession and our personal lives. Most of us know we should embrace it and make it work for us, not against us. Today, we face an environment of significant change.
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Is Your Department Heart Safe?
February 1, 2017
The IAFC EMS Section, in partnership with Physio Control, is excited to open the nomination process for the 2017 Heart Safe Community Awards.
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EMS: "Back in Time"
December 2016
We've told customers they need to call 911 quickly to ensure we arrive quickly. But we know most non-emergent responses will likely end in the same outcome. So why do we put our members at risk when we know the outcome is going to be the same?
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Providing A Safe Haven for Newborns
September 2016
The mission of A Safe Haven for Newborns program by the Gloria M. Silverio Foundation is expanding as they work collectively with communities toward preventing the abandonment of newborn infants. Since the Safe Haven Law was adopted in 2000 and ...
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Where Is the Financial Evidence?
June 17, 2016
Before you change over your entire department to a different EMS model, do you have the evidence you need to be successful?
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Chief Compton Honored with James O. Page EMS Achievement Award
June 2016
Chief Dennis Compton has been named the 2016 recipient of the James O. Page EMS Achievement Award. ...
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Heart Safe Communities Honored at Fire-Rescue Med
June 2016
At Fire-Rescue Med, the IAFC's EMS Section honored two fire departments with the annual Heart Safe ...
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Department of Transportation Announces Safe Streets and Roads for All Grant Program
June 7, 2022
Updates on the SS4A grant
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Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Roundtable
June 8, 2022
Reports capture the findings from these assessments and the discussion from the recent Roundtable meeting.
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Preventing Electrical Fires - Vigilance & Cooperation Key to Future Risk Reduction
June 8, 2022
Preventing electrical fires
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