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British Columbia has set aside $10.6 billion in contingency funds over the next three years as it ramps up operations to fight this year's wildfire season. Nearly 100 fires in the province are still burning this winter from last year’s record-breaking fire season.
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Rural volunteer firefighters in Ottawa are now considered casual employees, an employment status that is expected to give them access to enhanced compensation and recognize their role as emergency responders while upholding response time standards.
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An assistant fire chief with Vancouver Fire Rescue Services is recovering in a Hong Kong hospital after contracting an infection commonly known as flesh-eating disease, forcing the amputation of part of his leg during a family vacation.
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Montreal Fire is kicking its ice rescue training into high gear by doing practice drills in the St. Lawrence River.
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Orillia Fire is now permitted to recover costs from the city’s residents — through their insurance — for some of the emergency services it provides.
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Fire Scene Discipline: True Stories of Close Calls gives invaluable knowledge of author Danny Sheridan’s 37-year career through his experience with fire attacks, ventilation, rescue, collapse, and communication by examining real-life incidents such as Hurricane Katrina and the World Trade Center attacks. This book shares these close calls to illustrate the concepts of risk and reward on the fireground while giving insight into firefighters’ high-stakes decisions, from assessing fire size and location to evaluating structure stability and access. Whether a rookie, a veteran, or even a firefighter enthusiast, this book will help you see the world of firefighting in a new light.
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Every fire truck will have hose lines on it either in a pre-connected fashion or as a deadline fashion. A pre-connected hose line is one that is already connected to the truck’s discharge outlet, negating the need to do so when pulling the hose line off. A deadline is the opposite – it requires you to hook up to the discharge in order to flow water. By Mark van der Feyst.
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Are you interested in building a high-performance team? To build one, regardless of industry/sector, takes a lot of work. People are the essence of any organization and how they get along, or don’t, will influence the results achieved. Regardless of the organizational competencies, having a collaborative team with strong interpersonal communication is fundamental to organizational success. By James Rychard.
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When thinking about our compliment of auto ex tools and how we evaluate our needs, the one area that is often overlooked or undervalued is the stabilizing and/or lifting struts. While some may argue this is due to their somewhat limited use on our general extrication calls, with the advent of newer struts on the market, today’s strut combinations put that argument to bed very quickly. By Chad Roberts.
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I’ve come to the point in my world of fire fighting to start thinking about who is going to be promoted over the next period. Who will be leading the next generation of fire fighting? Are we doing everything we can do to get them ready? These decisions might not come up for the few years, but we need to have strong practices to provide our next leaders with the tools they need to do the job. By Jason Clark.
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| FIRE FIGHTING IN CANADA: THE PODCAST |
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Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg and Michael Landsberg, founder of Sick Not Weak, sat down with Ret. Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy to discuss the value of talking about mental health without shame, stigma, and the return on investment when leaders open up about mental wellbeing and resiliency.
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