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Additional courses are now available on NFA Online:
Q494 – NFIRS Course
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ICS-200, Basic NIMS ICS for Operational First Responders
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Fire Service Supervision
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PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS
Temporary Appointment as Acting Deputy US Fire Administrator
On behalf of U. S. Fire Administrator Gregory Cade, the following message is for your information and use.
Effective January 20, 2009, Dr. Denis G. Onieal will be temporarily appointed as the Acting Deputy U. S. Fire Administrator.
Dr. Onieal will serve in this capacity to provide the necessary continuity for the US Fire Administration during the transition period to the new Administration. He will serve in this capacity until a new Fire Administrator and/or Deputy Administrator is appointed.
I would ask that you support Denis is this temporary role as the U. S. Fire Administration continues its mission.
Gregory B. Cade
United States Fire Administrator
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The Incident Management Systems Integration (IMSI) Division just announced the following updates:
1. The finalized NIMS has been released and can be accessed at: http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/index.shtm
2. The Credentialing Guideline has been posted to the Federal Register and can be accessed at: http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064807e68fa
3. The Intelligence/Investigation Function Guide has been posted to the Federal Register and can be accessed at: http:// www.regulations.gov.
These links have also been posted to the NIMS Working Groups Team Sites.
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#1
My Name is Lt. Mike Mattix and I am the Training Officer for the Dowagiac Fire Department in Dowagiac, Michigan. We are a small community of 12,000 residents in Southwestern Michigan. Our department is a combination department consisting of four career and currently, 12 on-call firefighters. The information we are seeking is on how other departments pay their on-call personnel. (i.e.: hourly, per call or both). In addition, what is your department’s pay scale for on-call personnel and how often do you pay them? ( i.e.: weekly, monthly, bi-annual, or yearly?). Thank you in advance for your help and we look forward to hearing from you. Please send you information to either mmattix@dowagiac.org or dhutchings@dowagiac.org.
Stay Safe
Lt. Mike Mattix
Training/Public Education Officer
Dowagiac Fire Department
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#2
Is anyone aware of training record software that is easy to use and easy to produce reports of training records? I am looking to improve the access to the information as well as improve the information captured. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you
Captain Helge Nordtveit
Cranford Fire Department
Cranford, NJ
H-Nordtveit@CranfordNJ.org
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#3
My name is Rudy Horist.. I am an Assistant Chief with the Elgin Fire Department and a student in the Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy. I am completing an Applied Research Project on developing an officer development program to prepare individuals to serve as Acting Battalion Chiefs within my department.
I am asking for the assistance of departments that utilize Acting Battalion/District Chiefs or Acting Shift Commanders to complete a short survey on how they prepare individuals for this position.
To access the survey, please go to:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yOZUhc43Ui8ayeJk8rJR4Q_3d_3d
The aggregate date from the survey will be shared in the final paper. Please contact me if you would like a copy of the paper or if you have any questions. Please complete the survey by Monday, January 12, 2009.
Thank you in advance for your assistance and cooperation,
Rudy Horist
Assistant Fire Chief
Elgin Fire Department
550 Summit Street
Elgin, IL 60120
Office: 847-931-6182
Fax: 847-931-6179
horist_r@cityofelgin.org
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#4
We are looking for information on Career Development in the fire service. We want to put together a list or course catalog for education at each level of the fire service, i.e., firefighter 1, 2, and Officer levels.
Does anyone have anything created in a policy, or catalog of suggested and required courses that they use in their department. I am looking for something like is used in colleges or Universities. We are trying to provide a path for further development of individuals for future positions in our department that would prepare them for Assessment Centers.
Thank you in advance,
Ron Wieland
The Training Division
City of SeaTac Fire Department
206.973.4509
rwieland@ci.seatac.wa.us
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#5
When you have a few minutes, please respond to one more EFO project survey, located at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bSWW1pzEQwiD0_2bRFRd5Tmw_3d_3d
Thank you for your response.
Dave Bailey
Battalion Chief Operations Division
Chesterfield Fire and EMS
baileyd@chesterfield.gov
(804)323-5400
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#6
I am a Battalion Chief at the Cedar Hill Fire Protection District in Missouri about 30 miles south of St. Louis. We are a combination department with 15 full time firefighting staff and about 20 volunteers. We are in the process of updating our SOP's and SOG's. We have both paid and volunteer officers. I would like to know what other departments are doing for promotions of officers. What are the qualifications, testing procedures, interviews, etc.? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank You,
David W. Jones
Battalion Chief
Cedar Hill Fire Protection District
6766 Cedar Hill Rd.
Cedar Hill, Mo 63016
djones@cedarhillfire.com
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#7
We are aggressively monitoring fire gases, particularly in the salvage and overhaul stage. Although we do monitor for the presence of carbon monoxide, we trigger operations on the presence of hydrogen cyanide. We have read the literature published by the brothers in Providence, R.I.
1. Does anyone happen to have an air monitoring program directly related to the presence of hydrogen cyanide?
2. Do you actively monitor firefighter gear and the materials that it may/may not off-gas when not cleaned adequately?
3. Do you have information about any studies conducted within the fire service related to exposure to hydrogen cyanide, it's long term effects on firefighters, etc?
Thanks for any information
Otto Sandleben
Assistant Chief
Training/Safety
Largo Fire Rescue
727-587-6740 ext. 2111
osandleb@largo.com
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#8
While conducting Quantitative FIT testing for firefighter mask fit/seal has anyone had a firefighter that could not pass the FIT test? How was the situation handled? Any related information would be greatly appreciated. Using the TSI Port-A-Count equipment.
Steve Moore
Jacksonville Fire Department
Jacksonville, Arkansas
Training/Safety
smoore@cityofjacksonville.com
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#9
We are in the process of developing a user level P25 Radio course. Many of our state/county volunteer 1st responders have had little experience using the new P25 radios. So we want to provide them with 3-4 hour course with a classroom Power Point presentation and then a practical exercise (hands on experience). Has anyone developed a 101 basic radio communication course that might work well for volunteers? If you get a new cell phone within a matter of a couple of days you have it completely figured out but for some reason giving someone a new radio they just freeze. Hopefully a basic P25 course would be helpful to them. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My e-mail address is enclosed. Thank you.
Rick Moszer
Homeland Security Training and Exercise
Office: 701.328.7314
Cell: 701.220.2845
rmoszer@ndaco.org
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2008 U.S. Line of Duty Deaths 112 LODD’s
2008 Worldwide LODD's 51 LODD's
Visit FIREFIGHTERNEARMISS.COM and check out the Report of the Week(ROTW) for an incident description followed by review questions designed to spark discussion. We can all learn from these.
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VIRTUAL TRADING POST
If you find the Virtual TRADEing Post useful, please send an email to Nashid Hasan mhasan1@lsu.edu. Nash is the mastermind behind the structure of the Virtual TRADEing Post. So, please let Nash know how much you appreciate the availability of this material and how useful you find it.
Several people have experienced difficulty accessing the TRADE's Virtual TRADEing Post through the address published and have contacted me for suggestions. The system was unavailable for a short time but is back up and running. Go to Louisiana State University Fire and Emergency Training Institute's NFA TRADE page: http://feti.lsu.edu/municipal/NFA/TRADE/ and access it there. Look for improvement on how the material is organized very soon.
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LESSONS LEARNED INFORMATION SHARING
LLIS.gov Partners with US Fire Administration
As part of its continual effort to improve information sharing across the emergency response and homeland security communities, LLIS.gov launched a new partnership with the US Fire Administration (USFA). The USFA strives to provide national leadership to local fire and emergency services departments. To highlight the new partnership, LLIS.gov has created a new USFA Resource Page where members can access USFA technical and special reports, related LLIS.gov original content, featured documents, and valuable links. To access the resource page, log onto LLIS.gov and click on US Fire Administration under LLIS.GOV PARTNERS.
The LLIS.gov Team continues to post new Lessons Learned, Best Practices, Practice Notes, and Good Stories to the system on a regular basis. Weekly updates about new original content can be found in the NEW LLIS.GOV CONTENT box on the homepage of LLIS.gov. LLIS.gov recently posted the following original content documents drawn from USFA Technical Reports:
Lessons Learned
- Fire Operations: Determining if Local Water Systems Can Meet Demand during Major Fires (Reno, NV Twelve-Fatality Hotel Arson, 2006)
Fire departments’ pre-planning processes should determine if local water systems are capable of meeting the demand necessary for fighting major fires. - Incident Management: Locating Public Information Operations Close to the Command Area (Apex, NC Chemical Fire, 2006)
Incident commanders should consider locating public information operations in close proximity to the command area. - Emergency Management: Updating Incident Action Plans Throughout an Incident’s Response (Apex, NC Chemical Fire, 2006)
Incident commanders should consider having incident action plans routinely updated during extended response activities. - Fire Operations: Training Personnel in Specialized Tactics for Incidents at Power Plants (Rhea County, TN Watts Bar Hydroelectric Plant Fire, 2002)
Fire departments that have power plants located within their area of operations should ensure that their personnel are trained in the appropriate specialized tactics. This will enable the departments to respond successfully to incidents at the plants. - Incident Command: Appointing a Public Information Officer (Ardent Sentry Full-Scale Exercise, 2007)
Incident command should ensure that an appropriately trained individual serves as public information officer during an incident response. This individual should understand his or her media management responsibilities and should be able to interface with the emergency operations center and joint information center. - Incident Management: Identifying Remote Staging Areas (Apex, NC Chemical Fire, 2006)
Incident commanders should identify potential remote staging areas for use during response operations when resources may be exposed to unacceptable hazards. This enables incident commanders to relocate and protect resources from potential exposures. - Mass Evacuation: Planning for the Evacuation of Special Needs Populations (Apex, NC Chemical Fire, 2006)
Emergency managers should develop clear, concise plans that address the evacuation of their special needs populations in the event of an incident. - Pre-Incident Site Planning: Acquiring Diagrams and Plans for Power Plants and Industrial Facilities (Rhea County, TN Watts Bar Hydroelectric Plant Fire, 2002)
Fire departments should acquire diagrams and pre-plans for local power plants and other industrial facilities in their area. It is critical that these facilities provide fire departments with all information necessary to respond to an incident on their premises.
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LLIS.gov has partnered with the Emergency Management and Response – Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC) to provide LLIS.gov members access to the EMR-ISAC’s free, critical infrastructure protection (CIP) information. Located at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, MD, the EMR-ISAC was developed to collect, analyze, and disseminate timely, consequential information to assist in the practice of critical infrastructure protection by the leaders, owners, and operators of the nation’s Emergency Services Sector.
The EMR-ISAC, a no-cost information sharing program within the Department of Homeland Security, specifically provides information necessary to protect local internal critical infrastructures (i.e., personnel, physical assets, and communication/cyber systems that must be intact and operational 24 x 7) against all hazards, from natural disasters to terrorist activities. The program’s main focus is ensuring that emergency response leadership, their organizations, and local policy leaders have both the internal and external support and resources to aid in disaster protection, prevention, and response to enhance survivability, continuity of operations, and mission success.
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