Friday, January 29

U.S. Fire Administration Civilian Fire Fatality Notification Update

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The Nation's news media is reporting the following residential fire (non-arson) fatalities:

Thursday, January 28

  • 2 dead – Occurred Thursday, 1/28 – Moberly, MO (Columbia – Jefferson City, MO):  Two women, ages 56 and 18-years-old, were killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  • 2 dead - Occurred Wednesday, 1/27 - Alachua County, FL (Gainesville, FL):  An elderly man and his son were killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  • 1 dead - Occurred Thursday, 1/28 - Pompano Beach, FL (Miami - Fort Lauderdale, FL):  An 82-year-old woman succumbed from injuries sustained in a home fire that occurred Tuesday, 1/26.  Officials believe a space heater caused the fire. 
  • 1 dead – Occurred Thursday, 1/28 – Dalton, MN (Fargo, ND):  A person was killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation. 
  • 1 dead - Occurred Thursday, 1/28 - North Escambia, FL (Panama City, FL):  A 91-year-old woman was killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  • 1 dead - Occurred Wednesday, 1/27 - Troutville, VA (Roanoke - Lynchburg, VA):  A 67-year-old man was killed in an apartment fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  • 1 dead - Occurred Tuesday, 1/26 - Thetford Township, MI (Flint, MI):  A 19-year-old man was killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.

 To find out more about any of the reported incidents, please contact news media in the vicinity where the fatal fire occurred. USFA does not have any additional information other than what is listed here.  


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Thursday, January 28

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

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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.

 

The information provided here must be non-commercial and non-copyrighted.  None of the material shared should be incorporated into any copyrighted programs.

 

The TRADENET newsletter is distributed through the USFA/FEMA server.  This allows you to control your subscription easier by allowing you to add new email addresses or delete old ones.  There are over 33,136 subscribers worldwide to the weekly newsletter.  This is an increase of 86 subscriptions since last week.  If you know of someone who wishes to subscribe, all they need to do is go to the following site, http://service.govdelivery.com/service/multi_subscribe.html?code=USDHSFA and enter your email address.  They will then be taken to a page which will allow them to select their choices of newsletters.

 

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.

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FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES HIGHER EDUCATION

 

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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To enroll in NFAOnline, visit www.nfaonline.dhs.gov and browse the course catalog through the ‘New Students’ option.

 

Go to NFAOnline to see the complete COURSE CATALOG

 

Additional courses are now available on NFA Online:

 

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PROGRAM NOTICE

Student Recruitment for the first PILOT offering of:

Hazardous Materials / Special Operations Program Management

P – Pilot Offering (see attached)

 

The United States Fire Administration’s (USFA) National Fire Academy (NFA), is conducting a pilot course at the National Emergency Training Center (NETC) in Emmitsburg, Maryland for the newly developed 6-day course Hazardous Materials / Special Operations Program Management (P254).

 

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#1

Looking for SOP / SOG's  regarding the Incident Safety Officer. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


George J. Teixeira II
Nebraska Forest Service
Fire Resource Manager, ISO
Planning and Management
102 AA Entomology Hall
Lincoln, NE 68583-0815
(402) 472-5870
gteixeira2@unl.edu

 

 

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#2

Greetings,

 I was wondering if any organization has a policy, SOG, or training outline they utilize to reintroduce or provide refresher training to their personnel when they report back to duty after a 12 month or greater military deployment? Anything you have that you could share with me would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Frank Ricci

Battalion Chief

Casa Grande Fire Department

119 E. Florence Blvd.

Casa Grande, AZ 85222

Station (520) 421-8777 x5988

Fax      (520) 836-9528

Nextel  (520) 251-3007

D.C.     128*25*1658
fricci
@casagrandeaz.gov

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#3

I am looking for job descriptions and rank of Public Life Safety Educators in your department whom do community risk reduction programs.  Thanks for your assistance.

 

Lieutenant George L. Thomas IV, CFO, EFO, MIFireE

B Shift Safety Officer

Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services

Cell (301) 418-8652

Direct Connect 164*17223*134

Office (301) 600-9331

Fax (301) 600-9339

GThomas@FrederickCountyMD.gov

 

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#4

I am doing some research on Tankers / tenders and the venting systems installed on the tanks. This is for fact finding on what type of vents are in use, i.e Open, butterfly, float etc.. This will be used in conjunction with what types of dump valves are being are being used.

If you could send any information or pictures regarding the above to:

Paul Doyle

Goose Lake Fire Department

Iowa

pdoyle@netins.net

 

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#5

As a metro training chief with 1100 career and 1500 volunteer personnel we are currently using an "on-line" LMS (learning management system).  Our current vendor contract is expiring this month and we are exploring various options to continuing this training format.

I am looking for departments and training divisions who are currently operating an LMS or similar "on line" training system.  Specifically I need to determine the following:

 

1.  Are you using an internal server or a vendor's? 

2.  What is the LMS (learning management system) platform/software

3.  Are you doing on-line testing (SCORM compliant?)

4.  Are you using power-point,  narrated power-point, streaming video or ? 

5.  Can you issue certificates "on line"? 

6.  Do you have storage limitations on your server and if so how long are programs/courses

     posted "on line".

7.  Are you totally "web based" or only network based for internal use? 

8.  Your experiences either positive or negative regarding your system

 

Any feedback is sincerely appreciated.  Please respond to :

 

Division Chief Michael W. Robinson, CFO

Baltimore County Fire Department

Fire Rescue Academy

1545 Sparrows Point Blvd.

Sparrows Point, MD 21219

mwrobinson@baltimorecountymd.gov

(410) 887-7523 or (443) 463-9496

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#6

Happy New Year and Good Morning Fire Prevention Professionals,

Attached is a letter of introduction and a word document survey regarding your experiences in selection and use of electronic Hand Held devices for use by field inspectors and mobile printer information.

If you know of other agencies fire or otherwise, that are not on the distribution list above, who are using electronic devices in the field and/or mobile printers, please pass this email along to them.  

I am on the DDES Taskforce for Hand Held Devices and I am trying to glean info from agencies who are currently using these devices in the field, so as to streamline our selection to devices that really work and to learn from others mistakes in device and component selection, so we do not re-invent the wheel!! (I know that comes as a shock to you).

Thanks for your time and participation in our survey.

Mark Thompson, Deputy Fire Marshal
King County Building and Fire Services Division
(206) 296-6757

Mark.Thompson@kingcounty.gov

 

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2010 U.S. Line of Duty Deaths                          6 LODD’s

2008 U.S. Line of Duty Deaths                         93 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”

 

 

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.

 

NOTICE*************NOTICE****************NOTICE****************NOTICE****************

 

This is a new web address for the Virtual Trading Post.  If you had it bookmarked, delete your old bookmark, go to this new page and bookmark the new page.

 

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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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Focus on Fire Safety: Older Adults and Preparedness for Fire

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Focus on Fire Safety: Older Adults and Preparedness for Fire

Adults age 65 and older are at a higher risk of death from fire than any other age group. According to the USFA report Fire in the United States Fifteenth Edition, older adults account for approximately 32 percent of all fire deaths. Fire prevention and planning are key elements in reducing the risk of deaths and injuries from fire. 

The growth in the number and proportion of older adults is unprecedented in the history of the United States. Two factors — longer life spans and aging baby boomers — will combine to double the population of Americans aged 65 and older to 71 million by 2030 (source: CDC), making fire prevention and education even more important for this at risk group.

Learn More  »


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USFA Releases Residential Building Heating Fires and Portable Heater Fires Topical Reports

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USFA Releases Residential Building Heating Fires and Portable Heater Fires Topical Reports

EMMITSBURG, MD. – The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) announces the release of two special reports regarding heating fires and portable heater fires in residential buildings.   An estimated average of 54,500 heating fires in residential buildings occurs each year in the United States.  Annually, these fires are responsible for an estimated 190 civilian fire deaths, 625 civilian fire injuries, and $286 million in property loss. 

Heating is the second leading cause of all residential building fires, following cooking, and is most prevalent during the winter when the use of central heating systems, portable heaters, and fireplaces is most common.  Portable heaters account for an estimated average of 3,800 fires in residential buildings and result in 115 deaths, 250 injuries, and $98 million in property damage each year.  Fifty percent of portable heater fires occur because the heat source is too close to combustibles.

The reports, Heating Fires in Residential Buildings and Portable Heater Fires in Residential Buildings, were developed by the USFA’s National Fire Data Center as part of its Topical Fire Report Series and are based on data from the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) for 2005 to 2007.  The reports examine the causes and characteristics of all heating fires and portable heater fires that occur in residential buildings. 

Copies of the topical reports can be downloaded from:  http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/statistics/reports/


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Recruitment Notice - Hazardous Materials/Special Operations Program Management

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Student Recruitment for the first PILOT offering of:
Hazardous Materials / Special Operations Program Management

The United States Fire Administration’s (USFA) National Fire Academy (NFA), is conducting a pilot course at the National Emergency Training Center (NETC) in Emmitsburg, Maryland for the newly developed 6-day course Hazardous Materials / Special Operations Program Management (P254).

The NFA will be delivering this pilot offering May 9-14, 2010, with students to arrive Saturday May 8 and depart Saturday May 15, 2010.

Course Description:  The Hazardous Materials / Special Operations Program Management course is designed to guide students in gaining and sharing the knowledge, skills and abilities to effectively develop, manage and lead  hazardous materials and/or other specific all hazards special operations response capabilities involved in specialized emergency response.

Upon completion of the course, students learn how to analyze the complexities, dynamics, and inter-relationships of the components of special operations.  Through interactive lecture, group activities and testing, the students will study:

·         Identification of special operations components.

·         Identification of the inter-relationships between each discipline and then demonstrate how the manager balances the influences of diverse components.

·         Manage all related disciplines under the same operational procedures.

·         Balancing the “spider web” with understanding all the unique internal and external demands and influences.

The course utilizes lessons learned on how to identify the needs, develop, implement and sustain a Hazardous Materials / Special Operations Program. Ensuring the program meets the needs of the community and the current standard of care.  Included in the course materials are historical examples, current models and best practices for community risk based special response capability development and sustainment.

Student Selection Criteria: Hazardous Materials / Special Operations Teams coordinators, managers, and personnel aspiring to become coordinators and managers, Personnel responsible for training, equipping, and sustaining specialized response resources, Personnel responsible for the supervision or leadership of a hazardous materials or special operations team or company.

Class Size:  22

Length:  6 days

Prerequisites:  ICS 100 level and ICS 200 level training. Preferred courses are Q462 and Q463 available through NFA Online at www.nfaonline.dhs.gov. Chief's signature attests that the applicant has completed this required training.

How to Apply:  Students must complete a General Admissions Application (FEMA Form 75-5).  An electronic application is available on our website at:  http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/about/attend/apply.shtm

·         Completed applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2010 and sent to:

NETC Admissions Office
Building I, Room 216
16825 S. Seton Avenue
Emmitsburg, MD 21727

·         Completed applications may also be faxed to the Admissions Office at (301) 447-1441.

·         Applicants should not make plans to attend this pilot course until notified in writing by the NETC Admissions Office.

·         Stipends for eligible students are available for attendance for this pilot course.  Attendance at the pilot course does not prevent an eligible student from obtaining another stipend within the same fiscal year.

 


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U.S. Fire Administration Civilian Fire Fatality Notification Update

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The Nation's news media is reporting the following residential fire (non-arson) fatalities:

Wednesday, January 27

  • 1 dead – Occurred Wednesday, 1/27 – Brooklyn, NY (New York, NY):  A seven-month-old baby was killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  • 1 dead – Occurred Wednesday, 1/27 – Alton, IL (St. Louis, MO):  A man was killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  • 1 dead – Occurred Wednesday, 1/27 – Randolph, NJ (New York, NY):  An elderly woman was killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation. 
  • 1 dead – Occurred Tuesday, 1/26 – Erma, NJ (Philadelphia, PA):  An 85-year-old man was killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  • 1 dead – Occurred Sunday, 1/24 – Alamogordo, NM (Albuquerque, NM):  A 41-year-old woman was killed in a home fire.  The cause of the fire is under investigation. 

To find out more about any of the reported incidents, please contact news media in the vicinity where the fatal fire occurred. USFA does not have any additional information other than what is listed here.  


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