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 | Training Minutes: Access to Gated Communities
In this firefighter training video, Walt Lewis and company look at different means of obtaining entrance to gated communities, including tips to bypass access gates for fire apparatus.
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FIREFIGHTER TRAINING VIDEOS
Patrick J. Kenny: “Mayday” for Mental Health
Patrick J. Kenney discusses the awareness of mental health in the fire service.
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FIREFIGHTER TRAINING ARTICLES
 | 10 Things to Know for Friday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:
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 | Boston's bummer summer: Sox slump, Olympics snub, Brady out
BOSTON (AP) — After the winter of their discontent, it's been one bummer of a summer for Bostonians.
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 | Innovative Collapsed Building Simulator to Appear at Keystone Fire Conference
"Imagine a hockey player showing up for training camp having not worked out all summer," said Riley Cote, former left winger for the Phil...
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Ocala Fire Rescue Receives Public Education Training Tool from Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Grant
Ocala Fire Rescue has been awarded an Intelligent Training System from Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation to expand the department's existing ...
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Size-Up: Why Can't Johnny Read the Building?
Why some probies miss critical scene size-up information and some officers miss what is right in front of them. Frank Ricci and Sam Villani III&nbs...
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 | Developing Leaders for the Next Generation
Professional development should encompass education, training, experience, and self-development. DOUGLAS K. CLINE
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UL Fire Safety Journal 1
In Underwriter Laboratories' Fire Safety Journal series you can learn more about the impact that new materials, construction techniqes and emerging technologies have on Fire Safety today.
FIRESCIENCE.ORG
Education and Career Resources
FireScience.org will help you determine whether a career in fire science is right for you, which of the many fire science or public service career paths to pursue, and what kind of training you’ll need to be successful. They'll also help you sort through the many training and education options to find ones that that best fit your needs.- Fire Education and Training for Current and Future Students
http://www.firescience.org/firefighter-training-education/
- An extensive “how to become” series, which includes careers such as firefighting, EMT, fire inspector, fire marshall, arson investigator and more
http://www.firescience.org/how-to-become/
- A resources section with a database of fire department and academies and fire statistics by state http://www.firescience.org/resources/
YOUR TURNOUT GEAR
See videos on inspecting and testing your bunker gear, including one above featuring Frank Ricci and P.J. Norwood.
FIRE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY
View courses from some of the leading instructors in the fire service. Use them for to develop your knowledge or for in-house training.
FIRE DYNAMICS
NIST, IAFF Sponsor Event Focusing on Firefighting Tactics and Technology
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technolgoy (NIST) are sponsoring an event at NIST.
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ROUNDTABLE
 | What Would You Do? Sewer Fire
This fire involves a fire of unknown origin and materials in a city sewer system. All traffic in the area has been stopped. Skip Coleman has ...
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DRILLS
 | Throw Back to Basics: Bailout
Brian Zaitz has a new training bulletin on the fundamentals of firefighter self-rescue and bailout training.
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SIMULATIONS
| What Would You Do? Sewer Fire
This fire involves a fire of unknown origin and materials in a city sewer system. All traffic in the area has been stopped. Skip Coleman has another firefighting simulation for you and your crew to consider.
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FIRE INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT
Learning and Leading
You begin as a learner and then become a leader-teaching others. It's "the circle of fire service life." PATRICK J. CHAMPAGNE ...
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LIVE BURNS
McHenry (IL) Fire Protection District Firefighters Conduct Live-Fire Training
Fire photographer Tim Olk recently captured some photos of firefighters with the McHenry Township (IL) Fire Protection District conducting live-fir...
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PROPS
Lockport (NY) Firefighters Pursue Training Center
Firefighters with the city of Lockport, New York, have gotten approval to install a new fire training center in a former restaurant, according to a...
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SOPS/SOGS
 | The Professional Volunteer Fire Department, Part 20—Safe Driving Policies
Thomas A. Merrill follows up his previous article on apparatus driver programs with this article, which offers just a few of the many important pol...
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ISFSI
Ideologues and Their Bad Behavior
There are some in the fire service today who speak about and write about how we should change. About what we should change.
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FIREFIGHTERS SUPPORT FOUNDATION
Video on Effects of Fire on Stored Ammunition
The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute (SAAMI) has produced a free 30-minute video showing the effects of fire on stored ammuniti...
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Fire Engineering
July 2015
Volume 168, Issue 7
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