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When the weather is cold outside and the schools in your town have a fire alarm do the children take their coats with them? The question is should children in schools with cold climates take the time to grab their coats when a fire alarm is sounded whether it is a drill or a real alarm assuming that the coats are in the room at the time of the alarm?
Deputy Chief
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This survey is part of my second year executive fire officer paper and deals specifically with community risk reduction. My paper will address some concerns with the elderly that have dementia, alzheimers or any other related illness. Hopefully this paper will provide some insight into minimizing the amount of accidental fires that can be caused by this group of folks! Thanks!
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#4
Greetings;
I am requesting some information for an in-service class I am doing in November. I am giving a 1 hour safety overview for “Off runway aircraft crash procedures.” I am looking for awareness level information for Paramedics and Structural fire fighters. We are also Haz-Mat Ops level. We have a heliport in the district and I would like some basic information with basic safety and initial tactics for anything from a hard landing to a full speed impact. Again this is just for a basic “filler” lecture to take up about 1 hour. Any information and or pictures or diagrams would be appreciated.
Captain
(937) 642-5536
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#5
Hello All,
I'm looking for info on non-industrial employee safety training. We are currently putting a program together to offer the nursing homes, hospital, daycare, etc. within our boro. Does anyone else offer this type of program? How is it working in your area? Any handouts, SOG's/SOP's or any type of program would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You in advance for your help.
Lieutenant
bill2517@hotmail.com
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I have been tasked with overhauling our fire equipment operator (FEO) driver training program. I am looking for information regarding any SOGs, manuals, & competency based programs that specifically address initial training for both full time and back-up drivers. Lastly, training expectations to include any specific requirements that your department requires of your apparatus drivers would be of added benefit.
Regards,
Training Officer
Office: (586) 446-2982
Cell: (810) 499-1118
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LESSONS LEARNED INFORMATION SHARING
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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 (
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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| BY · Best Practices Report Part 1 (PDF) · Best Practices Report Part 2 (PDF) · Best Practices Report Part 3 (PDF) Fire officials in the State of A new "best practices" report shows virtually the entire world does a far better job at reducing fire causalities than the The final installment of a three-year study examining how 10 nations handle fire prevention in their countries was recently released. The report, commissioned by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was researched and written by System Planning Corporation's TriData Division in "It's not that other nations are doing anything that we haven't tried, it's just that the scale in which they do it is just spectacular compared to what we do here in the United States," said Schaenman, who in the late 1970s and early 1980s, served as the U.S. Fire Administrator in charge of the National Fire Data Center. "Unfortunately, our fire service has not been excited about prevention." But that, Schaenman says, has to change if the The report, totaling more than 300 pages, was rolled out in three parts since 2007. Part I looks at best practices in Europe ( Since the report has been available, it's been downloaded 12,000 times, according to James M. Kudla, System Planning Corporation vice president of communications. One of the most exciting things about the report, according to Schaenman, is that the best practices identified could help reduce fire deaths and injuries in the By way of example in "It proved that fire education worked," Schaenman said. "It proved the wrong thing for them, but it was very interesting." For the British negotiating with the firefighters, it gave them the opportunity to push the rank and file into fire prevention. Schaenman said the firefighters were offered a 17 percent raise with the understanding the rank and file were going to have to do more "white collar" fire prevention work. "Fire prevention became part of their job," he said. Schaenman said firefighters in the "We're going to have to reduce some of the work load we expect of firefighters and increase other duties," he said. "There are a lot of best practices that are doable here and doable without any increase in cost." Some firefighters in Another big trend Schaenman discovered was developed nations partnering with social service agencies, such as Meals on Wheels and similar organizations that have people in homes of high risk populations, like the elderly. "They're in touch with the real shut-ins, the high risk populations," he said. Those agencies report to the fire departments hazards and unsafe conditions for fire department intervention before fatal fires occur. The report reveals that kids in "It turns out students in There are some technological best practices out there too that help prevent fire deaths, he said. In Unattended food burning on a stove is another leading cause of fatal fires and, Schaenman said there are devices in For the very high risk elderly and shut-ins who may have physical disabilities that make it difficult to evacuate in the event of fires, Europeans have portable temporary sprinkler systems that can be installed in the person's home for $2,000 to $3,000. When the person dies of natural causes, or moves, the system can be installed in another person's home for protection, he said. In "That is just spectacular," Schaenman said, noting that it took 10 years to pass the legislation. Other highlights from the report include information about mobile home safety fire vans used in In In And Schaenman is convinced that education, provided by the rank and file firefighters, is the most effective tool the "They are very interested in it which is very encouraging," he said. "They recognize its importance." There are literally hundreds of ideas in the report -- some are familiar in the "Much of what we found can be adapted to the Schaenman, who has been studying and researching the fire service for more than three decades, is convinced that real progress in fire safety can be made in the "We can save many lives in the | |
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