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Table Of Contents
Act Local, Think Global
Lawmakers Block FIRE Grant Amendment Offering
5 Days Remain to Nominate an EVT of the Year
FIRE CHIEF Accepting 2009 Station Style Award Submissions
Mass-Notification Alerts Improve Situational Awareness
Green Tips
The Good Life
Unintended Consequences
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From Janet's Notebook
Act Local, Think Global


Ten years ago, I was asked to join the U.S. branch of the Institution of Fire Engineers, but I told then-president Bill Peterson that I didn’t feel qualified to join, as I’m not an engineer.

Peterson argued that I could still join because the organization isn’t for “fire engineers” as the term means in the United States; the term has a much broader definition overseas. In fact, the organization is open to anyone involved in the fire service.

“The organization basically means the “fire service” as we know it here in the U.S,” Bill Kehoe, the IFE’s current membership chairman, later told me. “Anybody with an interest in the fire service in the United States can join the IFE. We have people who are members of the U.S. branch of the IFE who are in every category from firefighter to city manager and everything in between.”

The IFE is based in Britain but serves as a global network for fire service personnel and industry professionals. After I was accepted as an associate member, I was given a world-view of the fire service with access to news, reports and networks of progressive-minded people. Click Here for More ...

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Top Story
Lawmakers Block FIRE Grant Amendment Offering
Instead, Rep. David Price (D-N.C.), chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, is expected to offer what is called a "manager's amendment" that will include a $10 million increase for the FIRE Grant program. Click Here for More ...

In the News
5 Days Remain to Nominate an EVT of the Year
The award will be given to one emergency vehicle technician who has made an outstanding effort to promote a high standard of excellence in quality and safety in emergency vehicles. The deadline is June 30. Click Here for More ...

FIRE CHIEF Accepting 2009 Station Style Award Submissions
Have an exceptional project that deserves national recognition? Want to showcase your best work to the largest audience? FIRE CHIEF's Station Style Awards gives your project more national exposure than any other station design competition. Fire departments and architects are invited to enter FIRE CHIEF's 2009 Station Style Awards competition. The entry can reflect an entire fire station or a specialized part of the facility, but projects must have been completed since Jan. 2, 2005. Click Here for More ...

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Mass-Notification Alerts Improve Situational Awareness
Use of emergency alerting systems has become more widespread, as both enterprises and public-safety turn to the technology to evacuate areas and warn the public of pending perils. Associate Editor Mary Rose Roberts talks with Adm. Thomas Fargo about emergency alert systems and how they are being used in the government sector. Listen Now ...

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Going Green
Green Tips
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The Good Life

I'd love to live on an island. And when I recently spoke to the Honolulu Fire Department about its varied rescue operations, it just reinforced what I already knew: Living and working on an island is just plain cool. Click Here for More ...

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As Seen in FIRE CHIEF
Unintended Consequences

The events of Sept. 11, 2001, affected the world, our country, the city of New York and many of our families like nothing else in history. For me, that day marked the start of my downhill spiral from physical and emotional health to dealing with the constraints of a debilitating, chronic illness. Click Here for More ...

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The outbreak of a new strain of influenza, known as H1N1 or swine flu, has led to many questions. So the Fire Chief staff spoke to Daniel Kaniewski, deputy director of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute and former White House staffer under the Bush Administration. He discussed how pandemics adversely affect our nation’s first-responders, specifically firefighters, and hinder homeland security operations.
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