Monday, December 1, 2008
Public Education
50th Anniversary of Our Lady of Angels School Fire
Dec. 1 will mark the 50th anniversary of Chicago's Our Lady of Angels School fire, where inadequate building design contributed to the deaths of 92 children and three nuns....
Mich. Department Receives Award
Fire Corps presented its 2008 Award of Excellence to Macomb Township (Mich.)....
NFFF Holds Contest
The National Fallen FireFighter's Everyone Goes Home initiative launched the Save a Life, Tell the Story contest to promote best practices in fire safety prevention and education....
Fatal Home Fires Jump 68% in Cooler Months
According to the U.S. Fire Administration, from October 2007 to March 2008, there was a 68% increase in the number of fatal home fires and a 67% increase in the number of people killed in home fires, compared to the warmer months....
Study Measures Effects of Alcohol and Fire Victims
The Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute conducted a study measuring the effect of alcohol on a person's ability to leave an apartment during a fire....
Free Speech Liability Targets Middle Manager
[ David Comstock Jr. ]
A fire chief should selectively choose whom they appoint to conduct a disciplinary investigation.… If an employee has any prior experience with the investigator, the employee will use that if adverse action is taken. ...
Interface Code Adoption
By Paul Summerfelt
Done right, the fire department and the community can have a fire code they each can live with. ...
USFA Launches Blog
The U.S. Fire Administration has launched of an interactive blog at usfa.dhs.gov for the fire service to share comments, ideas and success stories about fire prevention, preparedness and response....
FIRE 20/20 Offers Diversity Recruitment Video
FIRE 20/20, a nonprofit helping fire and EMS to recruit and retain firefighters and paramedics is offering its new targeted recruitment video called "Why I Chose Fire" to fire departments and college fire science programs at no cost. ...
XL GAPS and UL Release Sprinkler Findings
XL Global Asset Protection Services and Underwriters Laboratories recently unveiled research on water dynamics and fire sprinkler performance that could significantly improve the insurance industry’s fire-safety and fire-modeling capabilities....
New Emergency Management and Business Continuity Standard in Canada
The Canadian Standards Association, a leading developer of standards and codes in Toronto, has developed a new emergency management and business continuity programs standard, CSA Z1600, based on the National Fire Protection Association 1600 Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs standard....
NFPA Campaigns for More Home Sprinklers
The National Fire Protection Association has launched a campaign to increase the number of homes protected by sprinklers...
Heating Cost Concerns May Lead to Fires
As winter approaches, fire chiefs should prepare themselves, their departments and their communities for the dangers presented by alternate heating sources....
Fire Marshals Honor NFPA's Greene
The newly created NASFM Olin Greene Fire Prevention Award was presented to Greene at the 2008 NASFM annual conference....
Fire Marshals Honor NFPA's Greene
Olin Greene, the recently retired southern regional manager of the National Fire Protection Association, was recognized with a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of State Fire Marshals. ...
IAFC to Launch Internet TV
The International Association of Fire Chiefs will launch 24-hour internet television programming on Nov. 1. ...
Brooks New CPSE Director
Paul D. Brooks was named the new executive director of the Center for Public Safety Excellence. He begins on Nov. 3....
Campus Fire Safety Month Launched
Eighty students and campus fire-safety advocates joined law- and policy-makers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to launch National Campus Fire Safety Month. ...
NFPA Offers Fire Safety PSAs
The National Fire Protection Association has prepared ready-to-use public service announcements that fire departments can send to media outlets to promote fire safety during next month's fire safety week....
Security Expert: Time to Step up Anti-Terrorism Efforts
Anti-terrorism and homeland security expert, William Loiry, says now is not the time to diminish the terrorism threat levels in the United States and overseas....
Ga. Firefighters Teach Public Safety
Firefighters, emergency medical service workers, police and other emergency personnel from Whitfield County and Dalton, Tenn., participated in a public safety fair at the North Georgia Fairgrounds to help promote crime prevention and safety awareness....
Kidde, Danger Rangers Offer Discounts
Kidde and Danger Rangers are offering a special discount during July on fire safety products and educational materials to help fire departments prepare for Fire Prevention Month in October....
Apparatus About Town
By Carrie Cleaveland
The Lacey (Wash.) Fire District Uses its newest truck as a public-education tool. ...
FRI Exhibitor Preview
A sample of the products and services FIRE CHIEF advertisers will display in Denver, Aug. 14–16. Visit FIRE CHIEF at Booth 3021...
NFPA Offers Summer Safety Materials
The National Fire Protection Association offers reports, safety tips and other resources to the media working on Fourth of July stories and other topics related to summer safety....
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