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Fireground Simulation: Office Building Fire

This fireground simulation from Scott Goodwin Associates features a fire scenario involving a multi-story office building with smoke showing. Share your thoughts on how you would proceed with firefighting operations at this incident.

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FIREFIGHTER TRAINING VIDEOS

Albert W. Schlick III: Required Training: A Guide for the Training Officer

Albert W. Schlick III discusses the many sources of training in the fire service.

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FIREFIGHTER TRAINING ARTICLES

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...
Turnaround: You Can Get There from Here You've undoubtedly heard, "You can't get there from here"-probably in an impossible traffic situation, or you may have uttered it when tr...
Volunteer Recruit Training Programs: a Recipe for Success Developing a volunteer recruit training program is not an easy task. Training officers often become frustrated when their research results in a &qu...
Sacred Obligation, Failure Is Unacceptable Beyond all the rules and regulations, beyond all the laws and ordinances lies a much higher and much more relevant standard of living. Back in the ...
	IFSI's Jamar Sullivan named Instructor of the Month The University of Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) recognizes instructors who exemplify quality instruction, student engagement, professional...
MagneGas2 Selected for Firefighter Steel Structural Collapse Training, Multiple Cities to Participate MagneGas Corporation ("MagneGas" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MNGA), the developer of a technology that converts liquid waste int...

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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

Frank Ricci and P.J. Norwood on bunker gear.

See videos on inspecting and testing your bunker gear, including one above featuring Frank Ricci and P.J. Norwood.

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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.

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FIRE DYNAMICS

Firefighter cancer and cross-contamination

Firefighter cancer is a great concern of the fire service community. Among the contributing factors to firefighter cancer are the continual exposure to fire apparatus exhaust and the numerous carcinogens present at fire scenes.

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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

The Single-Firefighter Double-Horseshoe Below-Grade Rescue

While preparing for Tulsa (OK) Fire Department's fall company drill on below-grade fires, I became aware that most of our tactics for firefighter r...

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SIMULATIONS

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 Coleman.

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FIRE INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT

IFSI's Jamar Sullivan named Instructor of the Month

The University of Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) recognizes instructors who exemplify quality instruction, student engagement, professional...

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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...