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How Departments ? Even Volunteer ? Can Win a 2011 SAFER Grant
Volunteer, combination or career departments can apply for 2011 SAFER grants during the current open application period.
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Disabled Public Safety Officer Fairness Act of 2011 Causes Some Concern
Co-sponsored by Reps. Charles Rangel and Tom Reed, HR 3367 revises provisions of the Public Safety Officer Disability Benefit law that pays disability benefits only to public-safety officers injured after 1990.
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Firefighters? Obesity Rate Outpaces National Average (with Related Video)
The rate of firefighter obesity outpaces the national average with about 73% to 88% cases in the fire service, so found a National Volunteer Fire Council and U.S. Fire Administration?funded obesity report.
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Firecom Partners with Simulation Technology for Fireground Training
Firecom announced that its 50-Series wireless communication headsets will be a standard component of Simulation Technology?s firefighter driving simulation systems.
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Diversity Should Be Management?s Priority, Not Just Labor?s, IAFF Rep Says (with Related Video)
Pat Morrison said there?s something wrong if fire departments lack diversity and fail to represent the community they serve.
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Video: Heritage Center Creates Award to Honor Fire-Service Writers
The National Fire Heritage Center has created Ben Franklin Fire Writers Award. There are several award categories, and three levels of prizes will be awarded in each category.
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Hoarding Dangerous to Firefighters, NFPA Reports (with Related Video)
While hoarding can be a crippling psychological disease, it also poses extreme dangers to firefighters who may enter an inflamed structure only to find exits blocked or collapsed ceilings from the sheer volume of goods stored in unlikely places, said Sharon Gamache, program director for the NFPA?s high-risk outreach programs.
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USFA Releases 2012 Harvard Fire Executive Fellowship Program Application Procedures
The 2012 Harvard Fire Executive Fellowship Program application procedures have been released and national and international senior fire executives who have demonstrated significant career accomplishments can now apply for the program.
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Treat the Soil to Grow Diversity in the Fire Service
When Rosemary Roberts Cloud was assigned to her first station, she realized the Atlanta Fire Department had picked ?new flowers but they hadn?t treated the soil to make sure they could flourish.?
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Mo. Chief Battles Against Departmental Cancer
Cottleville Community Fire Protection District Chief Rob Wylie said 10% of his 50-person career work force has been diagnosed with cancer in the last four years.
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