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Not all fire departments have communications divisions but every fire department relies on communicators. With 34 years of experience, Sue Dawson has learned numerous lessons, some of them the hard way. As Dawson writes in her inaugural column in Fire Fighting in Canada, no one wants to experience the loss of a firefighter in the line of duty. That happened at Barrie Fire and Emergency Service in 2002. The investigations, reviews and inquest affected everyone. From that experience, Dawson set out to make positive changes.
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Vince MacKenzie is a career chief of a volunteer department, and, frankly, he writes in his Volunteer Vision column, he doesn’t know how unpaid volunteer fire chiefs do it. There is an incredible amount of time that must be put in to ensure a fire department runs and performs. Fire chiefs of volunteer fire departments, whether paid or volunteer, are some of the most industrious people MacKenzie has met.
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It was 10 p.m. on a cold Wednesday night and the tones went off for a vehicle fire in the southwest part of town. Just another vehicle fire, thought Chief Jamie Coutts. The incident, it turned out, was the furthest thing from a run-of-the-mill call, and a good reminder to the members of the Lesser Slave Regional Fire Service to always be prepared.
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The untimely passing of Malahat Chief Rob Patterson has Rob Evans thinking about mentors and builders – those whose contributions to the fire service are immeasurable.
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Crew members hurried out of their North York station one summer day in August after receiving a call about a fire at a nearby building. The firefighters quickly arrived at the site of the call, only to find out it had been a hoax. There was no fire in the building. When they returned to the station, they discovered they were missing cellphones, watches, jewelry, credit cards and iPads. The accused? One of their own.
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Even as he lay on a hospital bed, unable to move his arms and legs, Tim Casarin knew he would one day return to the job he loved. The Mississauga, Ont., firefighter had survived a warehouse explosion that caused a cinder-block wall to collapse on top of him, shattering bones in his pelvis, legs, neck, face and skull. He had been found at the scene with no vital signs.
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March 31-April 2, 2017
Location: Huntsville, Ont.
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