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Table Of Contents
Hungry for Change
IAFC Issues Smoke Alarm Recommendations
USFA Releases School Fires Report
Situational Awareness Low in Attic Fires
FIRE CHIEF Magazine Featured on S.C. News
Fire Chief Resigns Amid Conflict
DOJ Unheroic in PSOBs
Networking for Innovation
What Do Your People Expect?
Full Calendar at FireChief.com
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From Janet's Notebook
Hungry for Change
By Janet Wilmoth, Editorial Director

I was in Charleston, S.C., on the three-month anniversary of the fire that killed nine firefighters. Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. gave his first report to the community that day. The report outlined the behavioral health and financial assistance to the fallen firefighters' families and praised the Post-Incident Assessment and Enhancement Review Task Force that was brought in to assess the fire department and make recommendations to help bring the department into the current century.

Riley repeatedly praised Fire Chief Rusty Thomas and his officers for implementing 19 of the task force's 27 initial recommendations, including mandating seatbelt use, assigning an assistant to the fire chief, and designating the first dedicated safety and public-information officers. Interviewing procedures have been changed and are under way for hiring additional firefighters and dispatchers; the task force recommended that two dispatchers be on duty at all times.

Riley has committed to finding the money to fund all the recommendations. He's also pledged to change the city's fire-sprinkler code and to wave the water system's impact and tap fees. Riley, Charleston's mayor for 32 years, also is up for re-election. Click Here for More ...

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Top Story
IAFC Issues Smoke Alarm Recommendations
A smoke characterization study finished earlier this year prompted the International Association of Fire Chiefs' Fire and Life-Safety Section to recommend that fire departments use dual-technology smoke alarms. Click Here for More ...
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In the News
USFA Releases School Fires Report
The U.S. Fire Administration has issued a special report that explores the causes and characteristics of school fires. Click Here for More ...
Situational Awareness Low in Attic Fires
The National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting System has received 65 near-miss reports relating to attic fires. Nearly half the submissions report a collapse or firefighter fall, even though attic-fire hazards are well-known and have been cited in several high-profile fatality reviews. Click Here for More ...
FIRE CHIEF Magazine Featured on S.C. News
Following an interview with Charleston, S.C., Fire Chief Rusty Thomas, FIRE CHIEF Editorial Director Janet Wilmoth shared her impressions of the chief and firefighter deaths with a local ABC television news station. Click Here for More ...
Fire Chief Resigns Amid Conflict
The Times Record reports that David Speer, chief of the Central City (Ark.) Volunteer Fire Department, resigned over ongoing conflict with the mayor and city council. Speer was appointed chief in May 2006. Click Here for More ...
DOJ Unheroic in PSOBs
With a 3% approval rate, administration of the Hometown Heroes benefits is dismal; any improvement may take an act of Congress. Click Here for More ...
From Mutual Aid, a FIRE CHIEF Blog
Networking for Innovation
By Mike Love

My previous comments come from the energy of having groups of people nationally networked in an e-mail group called ePARADE. The ePARADE group is a simple Yahoo group composed of more than 400 fire marshals and fire and life-safety professionals who originally got together and identified a communication gap among fire marshals. Click Here for More ...
What Do Your People Expect?
By Robert Avsec

Where will the fire service's next generation of employees and members come from? The focus for many years has been recruiting women and minorities to reflect the community that a department serves. Today the challenge is how to attract and keep people from the newest pool of potential employees or volunteers: the members of Generation Y. Click Here for More ...
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SEPTEMBER

TEEX Combined (Basic & Advanced) Marine Firefighting
24-28, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

TEEX Advanced Marine Firefighting
25-28, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

OCTOBER

Two-Day Vechicle and Machinery Rescue Technician Certification
2-3, Houston
Contact: Scene Of The Accident Inc., 713-553-679; www.sceneoftheaccident.org

ESRI Health GIS Conference
7-10, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Contact: www.esri.com/events/health/register.html

TEEX Basic Marine Firefighting
15-16, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Annual Professional Development Conference and Exposition
15-19, Las Vegas
Contact: spfe.org

TEEX Combined (Basic & Advanced) Marine Firefighting
22-26, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire
23-25, Fort Collins, Colo.
Contact: Mikel Robinson, e-mail: mikel.robinson@umontana.edu; www.umt.edu/ce/cps/HumanDimensionsofWildlandFire.htm

Three-Day Accident Scene Safety Train-the-Trainer<
23-25, Forsyth, GA.
Contact: Scene Of The Accident Inc. 713-553-679; www.sceneoftheaccident.org

TEEX Advanced Marine Firefighting
23-26, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

NOVEMBER 2007

TEEX Basic Marine Firefighting
5-6, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

TEEX Combined (Basic & Advanced) Marine Firefighting
12-16, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

TEEX Advanced Marine Firefighting
13-16, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

TEEX 40-Hour NFPA 1081 Industrial Interior Fire Brigade Certification
12-16, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

TEEX 40-Hour NFPA 1081 Industrial Exterior Fire Brigade Certification
26-30, College Station, Texas
Contact: TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute, 866-878-8900; www.teex.org/fire

DoD Personal Protective Equipment Conference
28-30, Fort. Lauderdale, Fla.
Contact: www.tswg.gov

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