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Jon Pegg is the new fire marshal for the Province of Ontario. He started the job Feb. 20 and replaces Ross Nichols. Pegg has been chief of emergency management for the Province of Ontario for the past eight months and has a long history in the fire service and started as a firefighter with the Richmond Hill Fire Department in 2000.
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Fire Chief Vince MacKenzie explains why he is not a fan of the word “hero” in his February Volunteer Vision column. One reason is that it is used too frequently, and the second is that everyone is a hero to someone, most of the time.
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Are you a t-shirt firefighter or a real firefighter? Do you take being in the fire service seriously? These are questions Fire Chief Gord Schreiner asks in his March StopBad column. Schreiner says once you let someone know you’re a firefighter, you better be able to back it up.
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Fire Chief and training officer Ed Brouwer revisits a training drill that is simple to set up, yet challenging enough to keep your members interested.
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Canadian honours and decorations are often the most puzzling and deliberated aspect of a firefighter’s dress uniform. Firefighter Kirk Hughes shares advice to help navigate the rules and regulations around medals, honours and awards, protocol and proper dress within the industry.
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 The FRC inView 360™ provides the apparatus driver with split screen view. The bird's-eye view is always visible providing a 360 view around the vehicle. This unique view allows the operator to see pedestrians and obstacles in close proximity to the apparatus or vehicle. The second view on the display switches between front/left/right/rear views depending on the operational conditions. The system is networked between the turn signals, and vehicle reverse so the screen automatically switches to left, right, and rear viewing when turning or backing up. An in-cab toggle switch allows the operator to override the default camera view for complete control over the system.
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Discussing mental health in the fire service is not easy, but it is vital. Firefighters have a higher incidence rate of mental illness and suicide than the general population and firefighter Dave Wiklanski addresses some of those issues in his February Health and Wellness article.
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Vernon, B.C.’s, former fire chief filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging it terminated him without cause or notice and didn’t offer to accommodate his disability.
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The Cape Breton Regional Municipality's fire service in Nova Scotia was one of the few departments seeking a budget reduction. Gilbert MacIntyre, deputy chief of operations, presented a draft budget to the CBRM's fire and emergency services committee in Sydney.
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Governments, retailers, and growers are gearing up for what is said to be a multi-billion dollar industry ever since the legalization of cannabis was first mentioned. This has left communities, universities, workplaces, and more scrambling to create policies and standards for cannabis use on the job. Dr. Elias Markou wrote about some of these issues in his Well Being column back in July.
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To aid firefighters in getting their lines in place, firefighters have different hose loads that can be configured on engines. One such load is the minuteman hose load. We revisit an article in our archives that firefighter and trainer Mark van der Feyst wrote back in 2008 on the topic.
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May 3 to May 4, 2019
Location: Mississauga, Ont.
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