===THIS THURSDAY: FROM THE INCIDENT COMMANDER AND THE RETIRED CHIEF WHO LOST HIS SON ON A HIGHWAY INCIDENT The monthly NFFF Connect webinar is coming up this Thursday and it will be a special one. It will be about a vehicle crash on an interstate that killed heroic Virginia … [Read more...]
===A UNIQUE, NEW FIRE LEADERSHIP PODCAST. EPISODE: Gordon Graham. EPISODE Chief Reggie Freeman EPISODE: Chief Pat Kenny The Leadership Crucible Podcast....presents their stories, so you can learn from their experiences and the lessons they have learned from the challenges and … [Read more...]
Here is additional and updated information from the FDNY and the google drive: Lithium-Ion Batteries: Challenges for the Fire Service. The FDNY foundation symposium was presented with our partners from the NFPA and UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute. The Symposium Google … [Read more...]
A new article (and an online firefighter training program) “Hierarchy of Contamination Control in the Fire Service” co-authored by some phenominal fire service scientists Gavin Horn, Kenny Fent, Denise Smith, and Steve Kerber, has been published. This document covers fire service … [Read more...]
What keeps fire chiefs up at night? How things are going on scene- and in the firehouse. Here is an excellent program that will help Chiefs get a little more sleep: On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 from 0800-1700 hours in San Antonio there will be a one day program focused on … [Read more...]
A Huntsville Fire and Rescue cadet died Thursday after a training exercise, city officials said. Bryant McGowan, 31, died Thursday at Huntsville Hospital. McGowan was training to be a firefighter and became “medically distressed” during the exercise. He was assisted on-site by … [Read more...]
This morning, a Suffolk County Police (Long Island, New York) helicopter was involved in a "close call" incident at a medevac landing zone where, after the patient was loaded, a sheet from the fire department ambulance stretcher came loose and was blown into the rotor system. … [Read more...]