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Some P.E.I. fire departments had record years in 2019 — and they’re increasingly responding to medical calls in addition to fire calls.
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Three months after Bowen Island’s fire chief took a leave of absence amid a revolt by the volunteer fire department, the municipality has announced he’s retiring.
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A Boxing Day fire that razed a house in Mattis Point, N.L., has starkly underlined a lack of fire services in the community on Newfoundland’s west coast. About an hour before midnight on Dec. 26, the fire took everything that Tyler Bennett owned.
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In this video, Deputy Chief P.J. Norwood and Lieutenant Sean Gray discuss how fireground strategy and tactics have evolved in light of fire research conducted around the world.
They discuss the fire tetrahedron and how fuel, heat, and air all affect a fire’s growth or extinguishment. Gray and Norwood use the lessons learned from the research as well as their general knowledge of the fireground to illustrate safer and more effective ways to operate on the fireground.
They discuss how to apply this new understanding of fire behavior to two of the fire service’s most important tasks: search and fire attack.
This video is an important resource for anyone wanting to put new fire dynamics research to action.
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This three-part series is a call to action and retrospective on firefighters and cancer through the eyes of an oncologist. Part 1 in our series looks at the modern statistical picture before delving into the history of firefighters and the dangers they faced. Part 2 will focus on medicine and disease in ancient firefighters. Part 3 will take us back to the present and look ahead to what needs to be done to change the increased risk of cancer that firefighters face. By Dr. Kenneth Kunz
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There is a saying that we see the past through rose-coloured glasses. What if we saw the present in a similar way? What if what you saw was less important than how you viewed it? If this was so, wouldn’t we be that much more successful at protecting ourselves against psychological distress and harm?
Fortunately, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that this is true. By Nick Halmasy
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One man has died and a woman is seriously injured after a house fire in Oakville Sunday night, police say.
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After a lucky break in November, the Smiths Cove fire department is now facing another financial hardship. The volunteer department, which won $5,000 in a photo contest, has had $2,000 worth of furnace oil stolen over the last few weeks.
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A female resident is in life-threatening condition in hospital after a fire broke out on 18th floor of a high-rise apartment tower in Scarborough, Ont., on Monday morning.
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Mental wellness is closely related to preventative care. For the fire service, this means reaching out for help before one's sense of self seriously deteriorates. Nick Halmasy, a former firefighter, registered psychotherapist and founder of After the Call, joins host Tom DeSorcy, the fire chief in Hope, B.C., for a conversation about his experience with stressful calls alongside determining what is or isn't within the range of a biologically normal stress response. He emphasizes there are a multitude of roles stress plays in a person's life. A state of mental distress does not always indicate PTSD, but needs appropriate help nonetheless.
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