Thursday, August 13

U.S. Fire Administration Training, Resources and Data Exchange Network (TRADENET) Update

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Are you familiar with the training program called “Coffee Break Training?”  It is on the USFA website and can be found at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/coffee-break/.  Please access this training and provide any feedback to the Deputy Superintendent Robert Neale at Robert.neale@dhs.gov.  He will be happy to receive any feedback regarding this program.

 

Remember the Website for the National Fallen Firefighters program is http://www.everyonegoeshome.com/.  Also, please visit their Resources page at http://www.everyonegoeshome.com/resources.  This page contains many PowerPoint presentations and downloadable video clips available for your use.

 

Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education Program

 

Be sure to check out the new look for the model curriculum in its print-/handout-ready format. While there, view the new FESHE bachelor’s courses outlines that reflect the new Web-based formats delivered by the Degrees at a Distance Program schools. You can also download under the “Tools and Resources” section the new FESHE brochure in its DHS/FEMA configuration or take the same marketing piece without our logo and customize it with your own logo and content. You can also download the artwork for a FESHE tabletop display for conferences and classroom buildings which, again, is in both formats.

 

Visit the new page at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/higher_ed/index.shtm.

 

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Go to NFAOnline to see the complete COURSE CATALOG

 

Additional courses are now available on NFA Online:

 

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PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Hot Topics in Fire Protection (P138) Pilot Courses Scheduled

The United States Fire Administration (USFA), Department of Homeland Security, is recruiting students and instructor candidates to attend pilot classes for its new six-day on-campus course Hot Topics in Fire Protection. The pilot will be offered October 18 to 23, 2009 at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Students will arrive Saturday October 17 and depart Saturday, October 24.

Hot Topics in Fire Protection is intended to help students discover what’s new in fire protection by exploring how current events, products and trends apply to you and your jurisdiction.

Learn

  • How to “scan the environment” and conduct valid research into new technologies, trends, laws and products.
  • How to read, interpret and apply fire protection research, human behavior studies, fire dynamics research, fire protection law and emerging issues.
  • How to identify emerging local, regional and state fire protection challenges; and develop technically-based strategic solutions.
  • How technology develops and can be transferred to solve local issues.
  • What significant changes are in the short- and long-term future for fire protection systems and equipment.
  • How fire protection plays a part in all-hazards preparedness and response.

Using modern research tools, and student-centric learning, attendees will learn: how to evaluate technological and human behavior topics that exist in fire protection, the wide variety of research resources available, and how to collect and present that information in a meaningful way that can effect change to reduce fire losses or enhance understanding of new technologies.

Pilots are highly participatory among the instructors, course developers and students. Attendees are expected to contribute their ideas and expertise to improve course content and delivery. Attending a pilot does not affect a student’s ability to obtain another travel stipend within the fiscal year.

More information and application at: http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/nfa-061809.shtm 

 

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#1

I am the SCBA program manager and our department recently transitioned to Scott SCBA units, and I'm trying to be proactive and come up with a good plan for the hydrostatic testing of the SCBA cylinders that will be coming due in a few years. Since we have about 630 cylinders in existence throughout our 17 stations, it has the potential to be a logistical nightmare to ensure they all get done in a timely manner while we also don't deplete our spare cache at any given time. We have an outside vendor come in and our usual turn around time has been less than a week.

 

I have heard of some departments that have done something as simple as color coding the cylinders, using 3 different colors of electrical (or similar) tape to identify each bottle. Then on a 3 year rotation (or whatever time frame), 1 year at a time, a certain color will be called out to get out of the system temporarily for hydrostatic testing.


If anyone has a similar program or some other program to easily identify SCBA cylinders in need of hydrostatic testing, I'd be interested in hearing the details from you, including any pictures.

 

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer!

 

Steve Prziborowski

Battalion Chief

Santa Clara County Fire Department

(408)205-9006

steve.prziborowski@cnt.sccgov.org

 

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#2

I am in the process of my EFO ARP, and I am looking for some help. I am looking for any department that may have JPRs for RIT skills. If you could please email them to me I would be grateful.

 

Tim Whitham

Chief

Johnson Creek Fire & EMS

Office:  (920) 699-3456/3454

Cell:  (920) 988-7920

Fax:  (920) 699-3458

jcfireemschief@tds.net

 

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#3

Greetings,

 

We are preparing to run a Company Officer Development program internally in our department. I will be instruction on several topics; I was wondering if anyone has some power points they could share with me, I would like to add some different, yet pertinent, information to the slides we already have. Below are a list of topics I will be instructing, so if you have anything please feel free to send it my way.

 

Safety and Health Issues

Organizational Structure

Company-Level Training

Labor/Management Relations

Incident Scene Ops.

 

 

Thank you much,

 

Frank Ricci

Battalion Chief

Casa Grande Fire Department

Station (520) 421-8777 x5988

Fax      (520) 836-9528

Nextel  (520) 251-3007

fricci@casagrandeaz.gov

 

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#4

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service is a combination department serving a population of just fewer than 1 million in central Maryland. We have over 1,200 career members and an equal number of volunteers. We have had an increase in the private purchase and use of helmet cameras by our members. I am researching any policy type decisions departments have made about individual members photographing or video recording while they are delivering service as a firefighter, rescue or medical provider. In addition to any policy information we would encourage comments or opinions in regard to photography and video recording that ultimately could end up on the World Wide Webb.

 

Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

Mike Love

Division Chief

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service

Voice: (240) 777-2439

Fax: (240) 777-2415

Michael.Love@montgomerycountymd.gov

 

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2009 U.S. Line of Duty Deaths                         61 LODD’s

2008 U.S. Line of Duty Deaths                         114 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

“NEW AND IMPROVED”

 

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.

 

The VIRTUAL TRADING POST SYSTEM now allows you to search for material by key word(s).  Check it out!  Go to Louisiana State University Fire and Emergency Training Institute's NFA TRADE page: http://feti.lsu.edu/trade/

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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

 

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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.

 

The EMR-ISAC can be contacted at emr-isac@dhs.gov or 301-447-1325. To view the EMR-ISAC page on LLIS.gov, please click here or login to LLIS.gov and click on the EMR-ISAC link on the homepage. To subscribe for the free critical infrastructure protection (CIP) information disseminated by the Emergency Management and Response—Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC), please click on the following link: http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/subjects/emr-isac/infograms/index.shtm.

 

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