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Delegates and alternates unanimously adopted a resolution to provide $500,000 annually to expand and strengthen the IAFF’s ongoing fight against occupational cancer.
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In Ontario, Hamilton Fire Department is assisting first responders in Ukraine by providing critical personal protective gear to support their efforts at home to serve and protect residents of Ukraine.
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In Newfoundland, Chief Mi’sel Joe says Miawpukek doesn’t get as much snow as it used to. Joe said he used to be on the fence about whether climate change was having a tangible impact on the environment surrounding Miawpukek, a Mi’kmaw community on Conne River on the south coast of Newfoundland, but not anymore.
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The City of Kamloops, B.C., is looking at a new bylaw to require radio repeaters in high-rise buildings as first responders face communications challenges, including an inability to converse within the buildings and to people on the outside.
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Take control by accessing rapid & responsive software for emergency services. Quickly update emergency planning and Fire Prevention for the local community. CityReporter’s Fire & Code Enforcement software helps local Fire Departments and Code Enforcement staff meet their code-based inspection requirements and accumulate information for Emergency Planning.
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Every fire is a battle, and with a changing climate it seems that each large wildfire has become a war within itself. Recent examples across Canada have highlighted the devastating effects of wildland interface fires, where a fire threatens or destroys an urbanized area. By Kirk Hughes
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Being the training officer for Joe Rich Volunteer FD in B.C., I found it difficult to juggle family, a job and life while having to research, study and prepare 40-some-odd training sessions a year. I approached Jim Hailey, then editor of Fire Fighting in Canada, with the idea of providing help to the nation’s volunteer training officers through the magazine. He agreed to give it a shot, and Trainer’s Corner was birthed. My first column was “Communications”. I had no idea that one column would turn into over 100 contributions and multiple invitations to instruct in person. By Ed Brouwer
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by Ron “Z” Zawlocki; Craig Dashner
Trench Rescue: Principles and Practice to NFPA 1006 and 1670 4th Edition is the most comprehensive trench rescue resource on the market, delivering updated information on soil assessment, trench protection, shoring techniques, and more. The Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to trench rescue, focusing on the knowledge and skills required to effectively and safely perform rescues.
Includes many global updates: From foundational knowledge to skills application, safety concerns are reinforced throughout the text to help keep responders free from harm during actual rescues
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The life cycle of a fire department is one marked with benchmarks, such as anniversaries, and the people that make them up change over time. The vehicles, training and tools need to adapt and grow to remain viable and relevant as benchmarks go by. These events make up the history of the department, which in turn forms the “culture” or the “soul” of a service. As the makeup of a department is altered, a new sense of ownership is created. By Kirk Hughes
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Normally there are columns written by other authors that focus just on vehicle extrication and all the tactics that go with it. We are not starting a series on this, nor trying to steal their thunder, but rather we are going to look at one basic aspect of vehicle extrication calls. By Mark van der Feyst
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| FIRE FIGHTING IN CANADA: THE PODCAST |
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In this episode of Fire Fighting in Canada: The Podcast, Steven Craft, principal at CMH Fire Consultants, joins host Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy to discuss the series of five separate fire research burns on a full-scale mass timber structure in Ottawa. Craft touches on the importance of these research burns, how the tests are being conducted and what they mean for the fire service.
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