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Responding to Propane Incidents
June 7, 2022
While performing air monitoring of the structure for flammable gas there are a few items you need to remember to operate in a safe and efficient manner.
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Relationship Excellence: The Key to Keeping Everyone Safe
June 2, 2014
Establishing trusting relationships quickly with the people they serve is especially important for firefighters and EMTs. On the most basic ...
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Train Like You Fight with the Rules of Engagement
June 2, 2014
Training and fireground operational safety are uniquely linked, and standard operational guidelines (SOGs) establish a baseline for effective training. Where ...
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Establishing a Safety Climate through Leadership
June 2, 2014
Leadership can be defined as how we as fire chiefs influence our fire departments to achieve a common goal. So ...
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Firefighter/EMT Safety, Health & Survival: Community Relationships
May 15, 2014
Smart, safe firefighting is the message of the day. This message resounds in every conference, every training session, every shift ...
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Emergency Medical Services: "Suicide Is Painless"
June 16, 2014
If you have ever seen the movie M*A*S*H, you may recall where a fake suicide was held as part of ...
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Firefighter/EMT Safety, Health & Survival: Culture Change Needs Climate Change as Well
June 16, 2014
Over the past decade, particularly in the wake of the 2004 National Fallen Fighters Foundation``s first Line of Duty Death ...
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Firefighter Safety Through Advance Research: Applying the Latest Research to Tactics
June 16, 2014
The latest scientific fire experiments are providing new data on vertical ventilation and suppression that suggest that fire departments may ...
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It Takes Leadership to Improve Safety
June 16, 2014
The very first initiative in the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives is Define and advocate a cultural change within the ...
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Safety Leadership Culture the Southwest Way
June 16, 2014
In a recent letter to the editor of Spirit Magazine, Southwest Airlines`` official publication, the writer described how shocked he ...
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How Would You Solve This Surprising Cause of Near Misses?
August 1, 2014
This article, originally published in a Near Miss Report of the Week, addresses the importance of communication.
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NVFC, VCOS, ISFSI Release Operational Training Guide for Fire Departments
November 15, 2022
A training program that meets the needs of the community and the individual firefighter with safety
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Sound the Alarm: The Medicare Cost Survey is in Full Force
November 7, 2022
Best practices for reducing your risk of the enforced payment reduction for noncompliance
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2022 Excellence in Fire and Life Safety Award Presented to Jeff Shapiro
October 25, 2022
Jeffrey M. Shapiro, P.E., FSFPE has been named the recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Fire & Life Safety Award
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