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The National Fire Protection Association released profiles on Canadian fire departments that include statistics from 2014 to 2016 on departments and firefighters as well as information on the numbers of fire stations, pumps, ladders and more.
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A 61-year-old fire chief in the town of Renfrew, Ont., has been let go after town council passed a policy that meant he would be too old for the job. Renfrew council passed a bylaw that forced all firefighters in the town to retire by the age of 60.
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Oshawa MPP Jennifer French held a press conference to introduce her private member's bill 58: The Brunt and Kendall Act, in response to two safety-training related deaths.
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As firefighters, even how you answer the phone or the door makes a first and lasting impression on the public and the community we serve.
Author Jason Hoevelmann fills in the gaps that may exist in fire service teaching to better prepare you for a lifetime of the greatest job on ear The New Company Officer tackles the not-so-obvious challenges you will face during your fire service career.
The New Company Officer strives to make a big impact on your department and your success. “We do an excellent job pulling hose and throwing ladders,” Hoevelmann writes, “but how do we deal with people every day?”
Some of the goals the book will help you achieve are to: be prepared, set expectations, follow through, serve, listen, be humble, be a leader, make no excuses, do your best, and do what others won’t do.
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Firefighters are strong, but if you’re fighting a fire in a tall building with a broken elevator and you don’t have the endurance to climb the 15 storeys to offer help, the fact that you have the strength to smash in the door is irrelevant. See what Sherry Dean, firefighter and engineer, had to say in the January edition of Canadian Firefighter magazine about the many benefits of developing a combination of strength and endurance.
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See what David Hamilton, public safety industry manager for Esri Canada, learned about how Oakville Fire used ArcGIS Online mapping software to identify areas where home safety education is needed from the January edition of Canadian Firefighter magazine.
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A grass fire that stretched for eight kilometres swept the Kannata Valley in Saskatchewan Monday night, destroying cottages in its way.
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Two London, Ont., homes were badly damaged by fire Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses said the blaze spread from the rear porch of one home and engulfed one next to it.
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Careless smoking is to blame for a fire Monday at a home in Smiths Falls that claimed the life of a man in his 50s.
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