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April 11, 2019 |
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Timmins, Ont.,’s mayor says the city's new fire chief is bringing three things to the job: leadership, leadership, leadership. Council appointed Tom Laughren as the new Timmins Fire Department chief at a recent meeting. He has also been appointed as the community emergency management co-ordinator for the City of Timmins.
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The Saskatchewan government and the union representing the province’s wildland firefighters are at odds over the province’s plans to use a modified version of the wildland firefighter fitness test.
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Firefighters should brace for more forest and wildland blazes across Canada in future years – because it will be the new norm as climate change takes hold. Mike Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire at the University of Alberta, spoke with Fire Fighting in Canada about the issue in a podcast that launched this week!.
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The NFPA 1971 particulate-blocking test does not evaluate the impact of the hood’s design and construction on its particulate protection performance. For example, the seams of the finished hood are not tested to determine whether particulates are able to pass through the stitch holes.
Gore contracted with an independent, third-party laboratory to perform a smoke test on the seams of several particulate-blocking hoods, including the GORE® Particulate Hood. The results of these tests were very interesting.
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Maybe you have never needed to officially work out because you were already active in a sport that kept you strong and your cardio challenged. If your ability to maintain that activity has been reduced, a physical job like fire fighting requires you to find a way to keep fit and manage a limited timeframe. Check out firefighter Sherry Dean’s article on how to start a workout program.
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Editor Grant Cameron wrote an article in the April issue of Fire Fighting in Canada on wildland fire experts and ecologists warning that fires will likely become more widespread and destruction will become more severe during the summer months in Canada as climate change takes hold.
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A safe and effective fire service must have capable instructors delivering effective training.
This text includes all NFPA 1041, Standard for Fire Service Instructor Professional Qualifications, (2019 edition) Levels I, II, and III JPRs.
• | Level I – Chapters 1-10 |
• | Level II – Chapters 11-15 |
• | Level III – Chapters 16-18 |
• | Chapters 24-26 – Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations (FFI JPRs) |
• | Appendix A – Correlation to NFPA 1041 JPRs |
NEW to the 9th edition – Forty-three skill sheets across Instructor Levels I, II and III assist the instructor and the student to prepare for skills evaluations.
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No injuries were reported after a fire at a restaurant in North York overnight on Apr. 9.
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The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed that a woman in her 60s died in an apartment fire in Esquimalt on Apr.7.
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Members of the public were advised to keep windows and doors shut on Apr. 8, when a legal grow-op went up in flames in Squamish, B.C.
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May 1 to 4, 2019
Location: Peace River, Alta.
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May 3 to 4, 2019
Location: Mississauga, Ont.
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Sept. 5 to 7, 2019
Location: Thunder Bay, Ont.
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