Posts Tagged: Iaff
FF and Fire Wife Blogs
Updated August 2010: Blogs by the firefighter and ems community including blogs by firefighter's wives.
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Firefighter Netcast Talks About The Wives
Tomorrow night Firefighter Netcast will be discussing the role of firefighter spouses and has amazingly asked Jenna Hatfield of the Blog "Stop Drop and Blog" and myself to participate. I am more excited that I can even say! Please join us at 8pm CST at…
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Crew Size Matters
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently issued a study showing the size of firefighting crews has a substantial effect on our ability to protect lives and property in residential fires.
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Bad law, worse tactics
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the views and opinions of the staff at SConFire.com**
Union supporters try to hijack war funding bill for their own ends
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Full-time firefighters ‘complete waste of money’. An image problem in British Columbia.
Editorial and letter balk at cost of career fire department in Langley Township, BC.
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Retirement: Keeping Firefighters Connected
The economy has effected different departments in different ways. Some departments have experienced layoffs.Ours is fortunate that this has not happened. Yet, they did offer a pretty sweet early retirement deal and several people have decided…
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Review: Sirens Apparel
My experience with Sirens Apparel has been nothing but positive. While they have a very small collection it is well worth the price. These 5 shirts are called their core 5. These designs are made to celebrate the lives of firefighters a…
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Volunteers the Series: Exclusive VTS Sneak Peek
VTS: Exclusive Sneak Preview of Content that will be featured in Loudoun MagazineThanks to Volunteer the Series for offering this blog an exclusive sneak peak to the interview they had with Loudoun Magazine that will be featured in their July edition. T…
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25 Ideas to Celebrate EMS Week
25 Ideas to Celebrate EMS Week25 Ideas to Celebrate EMS Weekby Greg Friese on May 18, 2009EMS week is about celebrating your individual accomplishments and recognizing the importance of EMS. This week look back and look ahead at your career in EMS. I …
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Disclosure Policy
This policy is valid from May 20th, 2010This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. These gifts will be clearly listed when receive…
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Annual Little Angels Pledge Run
Often being a firefighter's wife you get told about these great guy outings and events but never invited. You learn to live with this duality of families and find ways to enjoy your own alone time. Yet, every once and again you get invited to participa…
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Monday Morning Shout Out: Sanrio
“Danger, Will Robinson!”...For all my hardcore Firefighter's reading this blog you might want to skip this shout out. Remember my first post? The one where I said I would be honest about who I am? Well, here goes...I am in love with Hello Ki…
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Of Dreams, Clowns and Eagles
I kicked in the door and as soon as the kid saw me, he took off in the other direction. He was running to a closet and as he got down on his hands and knees to crawl into the smoke-filled closet, I grabbed him by the waistband of his jeans, tucked him under my left arm and exited the same way that I had entered.
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Read NIST staffing and repsonse study
Staffing study released this morning.
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NIST Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiments ISSUED
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The NIST Firefighter Safety and Deployment Study; Titled- Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiements was issued this morning. A copy of the report is attached. The report is also available f…
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Monday Morning Shout Out: FireCritic @ FDIC
Love the idea of the Monday Morning shout out - I am actually stealing it from the Fire Critic. My shout out goes to him this am, The Fire Critic. This blog is a great resource for all things fire related. He is currently at FDIC and will be…
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Firefighters and Motorcycles
One of my favorite things to do this year on my husbands TOD days are to go on long motorcycle rides up to Lake Geneva, WI with him. Lots of guys at his department ride bikes. This made me start thinking about Firefighters and Motorcycles. A simple Go…
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Erosion of Political Influence
Has the recession eroded labor political influence and made career firefighters examples of "economic extravaganza"?
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Lt. Thomas Lutzow of West Dundee Fire
The Daily Herald posted several touching articles about Lt. Thomas Lutzow and his passing (see links below post). I attended the wake last night with some fellow FF Wives and our Husbands in their Class A's. We kept hearing people whisper to each o…
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IAFF Benefits
I recently received an email from my husband about some additional benefits being offered by the AFFI. The AFFI is “The Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois serves as the Illinois state labor association of the International Association of Firefighter…
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The Good, The Bad, and the Weird
Often I have gone to sleep at night having watched the news about some fire where firefighters were transported to the hospital because of injuries. I know that this can be as simple as some smoke inhalation or as severe as a 3rd degree burn. Personall…
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Why I started this blog
I wanted to write a blog about what it is like to be a firefighter’s wife because I think that there are a lot of other wives out they're struggling with the same things and issues that I am. Maybe by writing about what I have experienced and what I a…
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Coffe Cup Therapy
It’s 3am and I am up b/c our youngest son had an accident in bed. I am sitting here after cleaning up listening to him snore now on the couch and taking advise from a used Caribou Coffee cup. The first phrase on the cup that caught my attention was…
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360 Burn Size-up of The Fire Web 12/20/09
Today's 360 Burn shines a light on two of the primary forces with which we battle each day- funding and staffing. Finally some push-back, but will it do any good?
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