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May 28, 2019 |
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Longtime Summerside, P.E.I., Fire Chief Jim Peters is retiring. Peters has served the community as a firefighter for 47 years and was fire chief for most of them.
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Sarnia, Ont.’s, next fire chief grew up in the Toronto area, but he’s very familiar with the community he’s set to begin serving. Brian Arnold, the deputy fire chief in Cambridge, Ont., will take up the post as Sarnia’s new fire chief on June 10.
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Hope, B.C., Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy speaks with Scott Wilkinson, senior academy officer at the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, about how the department is using unmanned aerial vehicles to augment firefighting efforts in Fire Fighting in Canada the Podcast’s upcoming episode, releasing on Monday, June 3. In the meantime listen to our most recent episode titled “Cannabis Challenges in the Fire Workplace” here.
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Bring the hard sleeves to you and reduce the risk of injury to your personnel with a Hard Sleeve Gantry from Zico. This manual system allows you to easily retrieve one 10’ hard sleeve from a high apparatus shelf by simply pulling it off the back and tilting it down to a more convenient height. A patented catch holds the sleeve in place when the straps are removed, preventing equipment from falling loose.
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Featured on the cover of the May issue is Vaughan Fire Chief Deryn Rizzi, one of several Canadian fire chiefs who’ve recently completed one year in their new position. We also caught up with Fire Chief Lori Hamer, Fire Chief Cynthia Hammond and Deputy Fire Chief and CAFC Board of Directors member Keri Martens about what makes a department successful.
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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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From British Columbia to Newfoundland, fire departments are changing the way they conduct fire prevention inspections. By switching from a clipboard to a tablet, they’re able to get more done in the same amount of time. As one officer says, “Our department was looking for a software platform that would create an easy means of tracking inspections, and CityReporter has done that.”
One tool can handle all aspects of inspections.
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Heavy smoke is expected to blanket northern Alberta as crews hope a fire guard cut around High Level continues to protect the town.
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The cause of a fire that destroyed an Oliver, B.C.-area packing house during an early-morning blaze Friday remains undetermined.
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It took nearly 50 firefighters and eight hours to put out a fire on May 23 that destroyed a building in downtown Yarmouth, N.S.
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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. Check it out here!
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June 4 to June 8, 2019
Location: Baltimore, Md.
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June 5 to June 8, 2019
Location: Henderson, Nev.
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