Posts Tagged: Lay Offs
The Right View Point of the Fire Service
This video speaks for itself, no other comments required; Listen in.....
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Fire Service Limbo
As the "economy" continues to wane, the fire service continues to be bashed by poor leadership and one sided statistics which show room for more cuts.
Some say the economy is on an upturn. I am not an economist.
Fire Departments are not a new casualty …
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Playing Russian Roulette with Public Safety
Flint, Michigan just found out what it is like to play Russian Roulette with Public Safety.
Less than 48 hours after the city of Flint, Mich., laid off 22 firefighters and cut operations at two local fire stations, an alarm sounded for a house fire on Be…
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So you want to be a Firefighter? Can we please have your Facebook password first?
The City of Bozeman, Montana apparently really wanted to get their name on the map. The City is demanding that new applicants for city jobs like firefighters, and police officers hand over their login AND passwords for sites like facebook and myspace.
I…
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Four-story building collapses in Brooklyn
Doesn't it seem as though a building collapses every day in New York City? Luckily only 4 people were injured this time and no one was killed. I just find it interesting at how often it seems as though this occurs. I wonder how many departments out there…
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Making the most of blogging
How's about another Shrimp on the Barbie?
In a couple of months, two bloggers will be working together at each others jobs. One is a Firefighter and Paramedic on an Engine company in San Fransisco (The Happy Medic) and the other is a Paramedic for the…
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Fire Chiefs and Statistics
Some Fire Chiefs have devised a great way of showing success in their careers and within their departments. By altering the reporting criteria for call data they can manipulate the data. That data compared to former data (history) will show change. The p…
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