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A new 911 policy designed to improve ambulance response times also has firefighters feeling sidelined during lower-risk medical calls when they could be helping out. B.C. Emergency Health Services changed its dispatch system back in June in an effort to get paramedics out to critical situations faster, and the agency says response times have been reduced by minutes–an improvement that can potentially mean the difference between life and death.
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The City of Ottawa has named Kim Ayotte its new fire chief. The official announcement was made Wednesday. Ayotte had been filling the position in an interim role since former chief Gerry Pingitore retired in April.
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There are still seats left in the 2018 Firefighter Career Expo. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from and network with top chiefs, working firefighters and HR experts in fire service recruitment. This year’s event is taking place on Sept. 28 at the Fire and Emergency Services Training Institute in Mississauga, Ontario.
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In Full-Contact Leadership, Chiefs Flood and Avillo examine what makes a leader and, more importantly, what makes a leader effective in today’s fire service. This book discusses the various types of leaders, how they communicate, discipline, delegate, motivate, and set expectations for the people they lead.
Flood and Avillo also take a hard look at what hinders or blocks effective leadership and what steps to take to foster and instill leadership in your department.
Full-Contact Leadership, is written for those who hold leadership positions or aspire to leadership roles in the fire service.
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Whenever a mayday is called, it is for an emergency that requires help. The hope of the caller is that when the message is received by another person, help will be sent or given. Check out firefighter Mark van der Feyst’s latest article in our July edition of Canadian Firefighter magazine where he shares what he says is the right way firefighters should be calling for a mayday.
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Firefighter Chad Roberts talks about changes in glass safety in the July edition of Canadian Firefighter. He says dealing with glass is often forgotten about on most scenes but this vehicle component can cause major issues for patients and the changes that are happening will either help or hamper depending on how it is dealt with.
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The Montreal fire department’s specialized rescue team completed a delicate operation Tuesday below the Champlain Bridge, extricating a woman who had fallen onto a metal platform below the deck of the span.
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The OPP detachment in Cambridge, Ont., has been leveled by a devastating fire Tuesday afternoon. There were no injuries as a result of some alert thinking by the detachment’s commander.
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Two homes were damaged in a two-alarm fire in the northwest Calgary community of Panorama Hills Wednesday.
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September 6-9, 2018
Location: Thunder Bay, Ont.
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