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 | Throw Back to Basics: Ground Ladder Tip Placement
In his new Throw Back to Basics, Brian Zaitz talks about the importance of proper ground ladder placement when working at windows on the fireground.
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FIREFIGHTER TRAINING VIDEOS
Scott Joerger: Compensated Shock, Modern Wood Frame, Basement Fires, and Transitional Attack
Scott Joerger discusses compensated shock, modern wood frame, basement fires and transitional attack in a fire scene.
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FIREFIGHTER TRAINING ARTICLES
Illinois Society of Fire Service Instructors Announces Training Program Manager
Training Program Manager (TPM) is a new Illinois certification course aimed at those who wish to understand all areas of management of an emergency...
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AFSA Announces New Arkansas Chapter
The American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) is proud to announce the addition of the Arkansas chapter to its network of nationwide chapters.
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 | Firefighter Training Drill: Alternate Tower Ladder Setups
This drill from Nick Martin discusses some options to reduce this distance and encourage you to learn your apparatus' specifications and capabiliti...
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| Throw Back to Basics: Ground Ladder Tip Placement
In his new Throw Back to Basics, Brian Zaitz talks about the importance of proper ground ladder placement when working at windows on the fireground...
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 | Your Ability to Call a Mayday Depends on How You Wear Your Radio
Raul Angulo offers a perspective on firefighters using a leather radio strap and holster to carry their portable radio under their bunker coat duri...
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Some Alarming Facts for National Fire Prevention Week
The National Fire Protection Association’s National Fire Prevention Week takes place this year from October 4 to 10. As a company that special...
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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
Two-Alarm Fire Breaks Out at Quincy (MA) Fire
Crews are investigating a marina fire that incinerated 11 boats, sinking three, in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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ROUNDTABLE
 | What Would You Do? Restaurant Fire
This fire occurs in a restaurant approximately 30 minutes before opening for the day. View a new firefighter training simulation video from Skip Co...
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DRILLS
| Firefighter Training Drill: Alternate Tower Ladder Setups
This drill from Nick Martin discusses some options to reduce this distance and encourage you to learn your apparatus' specifications and capabiliti...
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SIMULATIONS
 | What Would You Do? Single-Family Dwelling Fire
This fire occurs in a single-family dwelling at daybreak. Check out a new training simulation from John "Skip" Coleman.
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FIRE INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT
Illinois Society of Fire Service Instructors Announces Training Program Manager
Training Program Manager (TPM) is a new Illinois certification course aimed at those who wish to understand all areas of management of an emergency...
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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
More Boundary Management
A timely management topic we started to discuss last month is how organizational boundaries are established, maintained, and revised-they pretty mu...
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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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TOP NEWS
The Latest: Worst floods may be over on coast, official says
October 9, 2015
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The latest on the rainstorm that pounded parts of the East Coast (all times local):
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Fire Engineering
September 2015
Volume 168, Issue 9
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