Industry Articles

Remembering SoCal Five Years After The Firestorms

October 26, 2008

It is the five year anniversary of the Grand Prix Fire, Cedar Fire and the Old Fire.  Those that assisted in these major wildland and urban conflagration fires will remember them as defining moments in their career.  The long hours of firefighting and utter devastation is burned deeply into all of our minds. It was [...]

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Study of Thermal Imaging Technology by USFA

October 10, 2008

Emmitsburg, MD. – The United States Fire Administration (USFA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have completed a report, Technical Note 1499, Performance Metrics for Fire Fighting Thermal Imaging Cameras – Small- and Full-Scale Experiments. This report provides information on the research conducted as part of a project partnership on Thermal Imaging [...]

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Is YOUR Department Ready For “The BIg One?”

October 8, 2008

National Preparedness Month provides us all another opportunity to take time to focus on the wide variety of risks that confront our communities and emergency services providers. While it is obvious that fire and other emergency service organizations are consistently refining their capabilities to address the service challenges of their operational environments, it is less [...]

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USFA Releases Residential Structure and Buildings Fires Report

October 8, 2008

WASHINGTON D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security’s United States Fire Administration (USFA) has issued a report today examining the causes and characteristics of fires occurring in residential structures and buildings. The report, Residential Structure and Building Fires, was developed by the National Fire Data Center, part of USFA. The report presents an overview of [...]

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Vehicle Accidents Preventable – IAFF Article

October 3, 2008

The International Association of Firefighters has recently put out an article regarding their stance on the number two killer of firefighters – Vehicle accidents. The primary emphasis is once again; seat belts.  Buckle up out there guys. Stay safe. Here is the article: Firefighter Vehicle Accidents and Seat Belts – vehicledeaths

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Ruling Restores Minimum Staffing for Airport Rescue Fire Fighters

October 3, 2008

An arbitrator has ruled that the Air Force Material Command (AFMC) headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, violated provisions of a labor agreement between the IAFF and the Command by reducing staffing last year. The arbitrator determined that the Command did not have the authority to reduce staffing on Airport Rescue Fire [...]

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Meet The Country’s Only All Female Firefighting Crew

September 18, 2008

Robyn Benincasa, a firefighter at Pacific Highlands Ranch Fire Station 47, likens her fire crew to “The Brady Bunch.” The new station’s “A” crew Captain Greg George is the head of an all female outfit, including Benincasa, firefighter paramedic April Lallo and engineer Melissa Cleary; all close friends who transferred together from Point Loma. They [...]

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Mobile ERs a model for emergency services

July 6, 2008

Temperatures were hovering near the century mark last month and San Rafael resident Barbara Perinoni just wasn’t feeling well. Her daughter called 911. A cadre of firefighters lifted the dizzy and nauseated woman into a waiting ambulance. Seated by her side on the way to the hospital, San Rafael firefighter-paramedic Mark Sedlack was monitoring her [...]

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Today’s firefighters do much more than battle blazes

July 1, 2008

During her first year working for the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, firefighter Michelle Arcediano didn’t get to fight a structure fire. None happened on her shifts. “Not even a teaser, not even a smoker,” Arcediano said. In the two busy years since she graduated from the district’s academy, she can count on one hand the [...]

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Dedicated to Responding to “Alpha” Calls

July 1, 2008

The 30-year-old man’s irritable-bowel syndrome was causing severe pain and he could barely stand up. His mother called 911. It was the third time last week the mother and son had called 911 from their trailer. Both suffer from the same ailment. With no car, no doctor and not knowing many people in Tucson, they [...]

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