All, Just a reminder that tomorrow (WEDNESDAY APRIL 29 at 1300 EST) there will be a special webinar on one of the most important court rulings in recent fire service history: the Line-of-Duty Death of Lt. Garrett Ramos of the Sterling (IL) Fire Department. This single family dwelling fire and his Line of Duty Death resulted in a civil lawsuit that ultimately delivered...Read More
All, It’s no secret that areas served by volunteer fire & EMS have been, and are, having very real struggles to turn out with enough well-trained, certified, and qualified apparatus operators, interior structural firefighters, and chief fire officers in a timely manner. For the sake of discussion, “timely manner” is defined in NFPA 1720, and...Read More
All, A volunteer Firefighter died in the Line of Duty yesterday while operating at a wildfire in northern Florida. Hilliard Firefighter James “Kevin” Crews (Hilliard is in Nassau County near Jacksonville) suffered an unspecified medical emergency while suppressing a brush fire. FF Crews was treated and rushed to a hospital, where he died Thursday evening....Read More
All, Next week there will be a special webinar on one of the most important court rulings in recent fire service history: the Line-of-Duty Death of Lt. Garrett Ramos of the Sterling (IL) Fire Department. This single family dwelling fire and his Line of Duty Death resulted in a civil lawsuit that ultimately delivered a...Read More
All- Take just a few minutes to check out this true innovation in Firefighter survival…done with real world research by Whelen’s engineers with very significant fire service input. …as well as what they are doing to support fallen firefighters. And that is the primary reason we are sending you this message… If you are still at FDIC...Read More
All, Here’s a link to an article that provides an overview of the NTSB report (released today). Below that, we have a link to the report along with the complete audio. ARTICLE: https://gothamist.com/news/ntsb-report-describes-chaos-at-laguardia-airport-ahead-of-deadly-air-canada-crash NTSB REPORT: DCA26MA161.aspx COMPLETE AUDIO: RADIO AUDIO of Air Canada Plane Crash with Fire Truck at LaGuardia Take care. Be careful. Pass...Read More
