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May 13, 2019 |
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Ottawa's fire chief says two fires this week in or near evacuation zones underscore the need for people to leave their homes if they're asked.
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A British Columbia man has been ordered to pay half a million dollars to cover the costs of fighting a 2012 forest fire which cost nearly twice that amount to extinguish.
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Associate editor Jayson Koblun spoke with Shayne Mintz, the Canadian regional director of the NFPA, about several ways the legalization of cannabis in Canada will challenge the fire industry in our latest podcast.
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The NFPA 1971 particulate-blocking test does not evaluate the impact of the hood’s design and construction on its particulate protection performance. For example, the seams of the finished hood are not tested to determine whether particulates are able to pass through the stitch holes.
Gore contracted with an independent, third-party laboratory to perform a smoke test on the seams of several particulate-blocking hoods, including the GORE® Particulate Hood. The results of these tests were very interesting.
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Imagery can make messaging materials more appealing and understandable. Toronto Community Housing is incorporating pictographs to make fire-prevention messages easily understood by people with poor reading or language skills.
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Drones are being used with success by the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS). Scott Wilkinson, senior academy officer in the WFPS training academy, writes about how the program began.
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Some fire departments are struggling with a backlog of fire prevention inspections. Some aren’t. That’s because they’re using technology to schedule inspections, prepare their checklists, generate their reports, and remind them about follow up visits. See what results other fire departments are getting when they start using CityReporter to manage their inspections.
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A greenhouse farming operation in Lakeville, N.S., lost its barn to a fire over the weekend. Fire crews from across the Annapolis Valley responded to the blaze at Bosveld's Fruit Farm on Lamont Road around 9:30 p.m.
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A propane tank explosion at a Squamish, B.C., scrap metal recycling facility caused a major fire Friday afternoon.
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Quick action by the Victoria Fire Department in British Columbia averted a larger fire and potential explosion at an early Saturday morning fire at the Fairfield Road Petro-Canada gas station.
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Associate editor Jayson Koblun spoke with Shayne Mintz, the Canadian regional director of the NFPA, about several ways the legalization of cannabis in Canada will challenge the fire industry in our latest podcast.
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