Posts Categorized: Funding Staffing
Pontiac Fire Department in its final hours. After 180 years PFD will be history come tomorrow morning.
Waterford Township now has contract to provide fire service for Pontiac.
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The Heart and Soul of the Pontiac Fire Department
Last day for the City of Pontiac Fire Department.
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No more seasonal employees at da’ Shore
Ocean City Maryland is not hiring seasonal fire-ems staff this year, a summer resort town that is growing it's fire-ems capabilities.
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DC lieutenant’s lawsuit against TV station tossed out by judge under new anti-SLAPP law. Dave thinks this was a case of poor journalism.
The reporter was asking the right questions, but not to the right person.
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January 17th, 1908 – Scranton PA Fatal Knitting Mill Fire
SCRANTON FACTORY FILLED WITH GIRLS A PREY TO FLAMES
FOUR KILLED AND MANY MEET SERIOUS HURTS
Several Of The Victims Leaped From The Windows.
FEARFUL JAM ON A FIRE ESCAPE.
The Flames Gutted the Interior of the Knitting Mill in Which the Girls Were …
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Video: Bionic Firefighting Headmounted Display is Being Developed by Tanagram
Check out this video about a brand new technology being developed by Tanagram Inc. They are developing Headmounted display (HMD) Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Yeah, I know...what the hell does that mean? Watch the video!
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Fireground audio: Detroit firefighters under attack at fatal fire with rescues try to get police to the scene. DPD says 13 minute response time is ‘acceptable’.
Chief 5: "Central, one way or another I am going to need police on the scene. We are starting to get a crowd of unruly citizens and they are starting to come after the firefighters."
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First Due Friday; 2-Story Balloon Frame Rockin’ on the Peninsula
Watch the video of this heavily involved 2-story balloon frame house. Note the wind and the exposures. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Have fun!
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Chicago Fire Department – Everyone Goes Home – Watch and Share
If you think you got some good reason for not wearing this or for not doing things the right way write it down. Because I need to read that to your widow. Cause I'm not going to know what to say. You say it for me. - Chicago Chief of Training Peter VanDorpe
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A Perfect Example of Fire & EMS Recruitment from Wyoming, OH Fire & EMS
The beautiful thing about this project is that any department can use it as a recruitment tool. It won't matter that the video has Wyoming Fire & EMS in it, the message is the same. As a matter of fact, Wyoming firefighters encourage other departments to use it.
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Washington Post supports DC Fire & EMS Department shift change. Editorial board calls it ‘A shift for the better’.
Post cites money savings, unification with EMS and preventing medical mistakes.
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Detroit EMS: One Year Later
Charles LeDuff: "Things Have Gotten Worse" for Detroit EMS
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2012 Class and Event Planning In Progress
Make training, professionalism and pride part of your New Year's resolution! We're in the process of building our 2012 calendar with intense, realistic hands-on training, interactive classroom events and good old-fashioned brotherhood.
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Moline Lops 12 Firefighters
THE MOLINE, ILLINOIS, CITY COUNCIL met Tuesday night and, after several weeks of debate, voted to eliminate 12 firefighter/paramedic positions and turn the city's EMS responsibility over to a private ambulance company
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Kentucky Firefighters Fight to Tell the Truth
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, FIREFIGHTERS ARE ADAMANT about informing the citizens about the dangers of station "brownouts."
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South Fulton Mayor David Crocker makes Keith Olbermann’s ‘Worst Persons’.
Small fire makes big news.
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Dennis Rubin sues DC over retirement. Councilmember Mendelson scoffs at The Rube wanting more money.
Rubin says city didn't contribute 14 percent each year to his retirement.
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South Fulton Woman Loses Home to Fire Because She Didn’t Pay Fire Tax. Dave Statter Stays Quiet This Time.
A woman's house burned in South Fulton while firefighters watched from a distance. The firefighters did not put out the fire because the woman had not paid the $75 fire tax. South Fulton has a well disciplined and well known rule NOT to suppress fires on non paying residents of Obion County.
Last year, when a similar story went viral, Dave Statter said that the firefighters should have put out the fire.
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South Fulton, Tennessee’s Fire Department makes news after watching another house burn. ‘Pay for spray’ subscription policy in Obion County brings more heat for firefighters.
South Fulton mayor likes policy.
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@FireRECRUITER: Rise to the challenge
An article recently posted to FirefighterNation.com outlines the challenges faced by volunteer fire departments in Pennsylvania in recruiting and retaining their members. Although these types of articles are becoming all too frequent, this one in particu…
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Less than a week left to get involved with Burn, The Detroit Fire Film!
BURN is an action-packed and inspiring documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of the men and women of the Detroit Fire Department, who are charged with saving a city that many have written off as dead. It’s a story that resonates in many American cities, as heroic first responders soldier on in the face of severe budget cuts.
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Closed Fire Station Re-Opened
Fire Station 6 was revived and opened again on November 7.
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Nevada Fire Science Academy Due to Close
THE FIRE SCIENCE ACADEMY AT THE University of Nevada, Reno will probably be shut down by the end of the year and sold to the Nevada National Guard.
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Firefighter Job Openings Coming
THE SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS have reached the end-point of promises from their volunteers and voted last week to hire 50 new firefighters.
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DC Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe now gets his say. His views on going to 12-hour shifts for firefighters. Plus the chief is getting a lot of heat. Read the comment cards.