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The first wave of 300 Canadian military personnel is being sent to British Columbia to help communities overwhelmed by floodwaters as parts of the province are expected to be hit with heavy rain following snowmelt from unseasonably warm weather.
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Federal wildfire researchers say most regions in Canada could be facing a long, hot, fiery summer.
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Environment Canada has issued special weather statements covering the entire southeastern corner of British Columbia, including the flood-damaged Boundary region, as thunderstorms have the potential to add even more water to already raging rivers.
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CityReporter was developed to provide fire chiefs in towns and cities across North America with a paperless inspection process. The mobile and PC based software contain a customizable library of fire inspection checklists based on the national fire code. This allows fire prevention officers to perform inspections efficiently and track results for follow up and compliance. Most fire departments see a 40% reduction in inspection time compared to paper based inspection processes.
Let us show you a better inspection process today!
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Call Signs for Life works extremely well, as proven by the hundreds of departments using the system daily. Fire Chief Gord Schreiner says departments don’t change the names on their rigs once they are assigned to different tasks, so they shouldn’t change a firefighter’s call sign either.
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Risk measurement and assessment is often associated with mathematics. In a life or death situation, or large-scale emergency, the mental and instinctual functions for measuring risk are beyond the scope of what many in the public fully appreciate. Read what editor of Fire Fighting in Canada magazine Laura Aiken had to say about measuring risk and how reflecting on the aftermath of an incident and asking “why?” can help prevent more.
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Author Jason Hoevelmann fills in the gaps that may exist in fire service teaching to better prepare you for a lifetime of the greatest job on earth.
The New Company Officer strives to make a big impact on your department and your success. “We do an excellent job pulling hose and throwing ladders,” Hoevelmann writes. “But how do we deal with people every day?”
Some of the goals the book will help you achieve are to: be prepared, set expectations, follow through, serve, listen, be humble, be a leader, make no excuses, do your best, and do what others won’t do.
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A wildfire has forced people from their homes in a west-central Saskatchewan community. Residents of the Waterhen Lake First Nation have been asked to evacuate due to an out of control fire burning nearby.
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The Burlington Fire Department in Ontario says no one was inside a historical home that was destroyed by fire Saturday morning. A local fire official is not confident they will be able to determine what caused the blaze.
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A fire in a student residence building at the CEGEP de la Gaspésie et des Îles's Gaspé campus was still burning Wednesday afternoon, hours after it began—forcing the evacuation of 280 students and shutting down the entire campus.
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