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B.C.’s newest fire captain, Carlene Pires, is proud of her paid-on-call job as well as the determination and accomplishments that have engineered her rise to the top.
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Statistics Canada released a report based off of Canadian police service findings surrounding arson and fire-related homicides.
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In Nova Scotia, the union representing Cape Breton career firefighters is calling on the municipality to acknowledge and act on a 2018 report that it says identified the wide rift between rank-and-file members and department management.
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At the end of Tuesday’s council meeting, councillor Campbell Watt gave his colleagues on B.C., a “heads up” that he does not want to wait until budget deliberations to start the process of hiring more firefighters.
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The Dynamic Fire Chief seeks to bridge the gap between service delivery (management of street level operations) and the executive-level management needed by a five-bugle-wearing CEO. Whether you lead a paid or volunteer department, the management skills needed to lead a successful department are the same.
Fire chiefs today are responsible for how emergency services are provided to the community as well as finances, human resources, legal issues, marketing, compliance, vision casting, and succession planning. Many fire service leaders fail to understand that financial management is the lifeblood of attaining the resources needed to allow effective fireground operations.
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Making the transition from firefighter to a captain role does take some pre-planning and when you reach the red helmet, your training for the job has really only just begun. By Jason Clark.
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Coaching is a big part of developing our firefighters. We coach them from day one on our culture, our norms, and our operations. Coaching is a skill not all have, thus creating a coaching culture within the fire department may help reshape the development and culture for the better. By Arjuna George.
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Opportunities for professional and personal development exists in each and every fire service. There is always a need for apparatus and equipment acquisitions, opportunities for improving strategies, or chances to bring forth innovative ideas. By James Rychard.
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When you think about it, soup is a true wonder of chemistry. Together, water, onions and time can turn water into broth, bland into savory and thin into thick. But it is a slippery slope and the process is critical to achieving great results. By Patrick Mathieu.
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FIRE FIGHTING IN CANADA: THE PODCAST |
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In the latest edition of Fire Fighting in Canada: The Podcast, Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy sat down with Craig Richardson, a training specialist and fire services advisor with the Office of the Fire Commissioner in B.C., to talk about training standards. The two discussed the 2014 training Playbook and how it helped to revolutionize training standards in B.C. Tune in to hear where training is headed now with the OFC’s training standard, what’s changing and how departments are reacting.
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