Please disregard the previous TRADENET newsletter. I forgot the attachments. Sorry!
Welcome to TRADENET, TRADE's Training Network, a National Fire Academy sponsored activity. The objective of TRADENET is to provide a forum for members of Fire Service organizations to maximize performance through quick and easy information sharing.
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If you have a question or comment for inclusion in the weekly TRADENET newsletter, please send it and your contact information to Lori.Welch@dhs.gov. Please be sure and include your Department or Organization name, your email address and any other method you wish to receive feedback. USFA reserves the right to edit content submitted or reject any material submitted.
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.
The link to the USFA/NFA TRADE Site is: http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/trade/
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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
Good day,
I am compiling data and looking for supportive data on manpower units. Specifically cost analysis, effectiveness of manpower units. Any SOG'S that you have in place; do you allow manpower units to be used in place of apparatus for mutual aid? What type of vehicles are you using to carry the firefighters? How many on a unit? What tools? If you have a shortage in a station, due you pull from manpower unit or adjust from other resources.(IE Over time, Fill- in from other stations etc) I thank you for your support in this endeavor and look forward to hearing from you. Fore now stay safe and take care.
Elmer F Williams II
(210) 317-3329
elmwil@aol.com
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#2
Dear Colleagues,
I need a few moments of your time. I am working on an Applied Research Paper dealing with succession planning for fire departments. I would appreciate it if you would take ten minutes to fill it out about your department. This will help me finish my fourth year paper and it will also help my department with our future planning.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9uXndUb8ZKWrR6PHiAa3Xw_3d_3d
I apologize if you received more than one request from me.
Thanks
Ray Hansen
Deputy Chief / Life Safety Management
City of Pinellas Park Fire Department
Phone: (727) 541-0713
Fax: (727) 541-0813
Cell: (727) 214-7850
rhansen@pinellas-park.com
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#3
I am looking for polices that deal with the response of Safety Officers to violent scenes, such as shootings, stabbings etc... Also, I am looking for polices on apparatus returning to stations, as to how the vehicle is to be driven regarding to safety, after calls or when on the air driving for non-emergency uses. If you have a smoke alarm program in your department, can you please share with me how it is funded? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance!
George L. Thomas IV, CFO
Safety Lieutenant "B" Shift
Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue
Cell: (301) 418-8652
Direct Connect: 164*17223*134
Office: (301) 600-9331
gthomas@fredco-md.net
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#4
What does your department require in regards to annual driver training or driving requirements for personnel beyond keeping their license current? Our department has a driving program which only requires Engineers and Acting Engineers to get "stick time" (1 hr every 6 months) on the truck / water tender and nothing for Firefighters driving the Engine, which they may be required to drive from time to time. We also have no annual EVOC or Code 3 driver type training. All personnel must maintain a California Class B Firefighter Exempt license. Any info would help.
Jeff Ryder
Training Officer
Vacaville Fire Department
Office: (707) 449-5437
Cell: (707) 249-4825
jryder@cityofvacaville.com
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#5
I'm looking for info to help finish building/tweak/update a family home fire safety program. Fire safety do's and don'ts in the home, fire plans, etc.
Thanks
Capt. R. Murphy
T.F.S.
balto_bob@hotmail.com
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#6
The State of Georgia Office of EMS is currently in the process of developing an online virtual classroom for medics licensed here to obtain their CEUs through. The training will be provided free of charge. The training is linked to our license database and tracks the attendance of the personnel in each class. We currently have some Videos, Podcasts, and some PowerPoint's with an instructor shown in a video window on the site. My question here is: Is anyone else out there doing this and can you think of other types of presentations which may fit this style of education?
Thank you in advance,
Mickey Moore, EMT-P
Program Evaluator
Office of EMS and Trauma
(404) 679-0527
memoore@dhr.state.ga.us
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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
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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/ and access it there.
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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.
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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USFA Safety and Health Studies and Initiatives
The U. S. Fire Administration is prolific in its production of cutting edge, timely research on firefighter health, safety and survival. USFA often partners with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U. S. Departments of Transportation and Justice, International Association of Fire Chiefs, International Association of Fire Fighters, National Volunteer Fire Council and others to provide the best research and practices that can reduce your line of duty deaths and injuries.
Being in the fire and emergency services professional development community, you are in the unique position to inform the students in your training and college courses about this research. You can build class assignments, project and discussions around them. Most importantly, you are in the position to make a difference. For every new firefighter training or degree-seeking fire science student, you can empower them with information that can keep them safe and show them where to find this information as needed throughout their careers.
Attached are three flyers of USFA studies and initiatives in various areas of safety and health. Please do your part to share this information with your students, staffs and co-workers.
Attachments:
USFA Emergency Vehicle Safety Flyer
USFA Firefighter Health and Wellness Flyer
USFA NFDC Research Initiatives Flyer
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Job Opportunities
Paramedic
The City of OPKS Fire Dept has a Paramedic position available.
Requirements: 18 years of age or older, HS diploma or equivalent, possess a valid DL, completion of a drug screen, physical & psychological evaluation, and background check. Applicants are required to have a current State of KS Certification for Mobile Intensive Care Technician, MICT Paramedic or National Registry Certification for Paramedic with requirement to obtain KS certification within 1 yr. of hire date. No residency requirement.
Qualified applicants will be scheduled for a FireTeam Video Test on October 29th or 30th, 2009. Learn more at www.ergometricsonline.com/ftt/. Copies of all required certifications will be collected at this time and are mandatory before allowing entrance into the exam.
Attaching a resume does not complete the application. You must fully complete the application to be considered for employment. All fields including the required licenses and certificates must be completed or you will be automatically disqualified.
Normal Work Hours: As determined by supervisor
Monthly Salary: $3,123/month; step plan reaching a monthly salary of $5,366
Application Deadline: October 16, 2009
Benefits: Full-time
Firefighter
The City of OPKS Fire Dept. has a Firefighter/EMT position.
Requirements: 18 yrs of age or older, HS grad or equiv., valid DL, pass a drug screen, physical & mental evaluation, and background check. Applicants are required to have: Firefighter I Certification in the State of KS or IFSTA equivalent, Emergency Medical Technician Certification in the State of KS or National Registry, current CPAT certification, and have taken the Fire Service Entrance Exam (FSEE) and achieved a score of 70% or better prior to applying. No residency requirement.
Qualified applicants will be scheduled for a FireTeam Video Test on October 29 or 30, 2009. Learn more at www.ergometricsonline.com/ftt/. Copies of all required certifications and FSEE will be collected at this time and are mandatory before allowing entrance into the exam. Applicants successfully passing the FireTeam Video Test will be scheduled for an oral interview.
Attaching a resume does not complete the application. You must fully complete the application to be considered for employment. All fields including the required licenses and certificates must be completed or you will be automatically disqualified. In order to receive an electronic confirmation that you successfully submitted the application, an email address is necessary.
Normal Work Hours: As determined by supervisor
Monthly Salary: $3123/month; step plan reaching a monthly salary of $5,366
Application Deadline: October 16, 2009
Benefits: Full-time
