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May 2009 Newsletter
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The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) through the Everyone Goes Home® Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program is proud to announce the upcoming release of the Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Resource Kit Volume 4.
Volume 4 includes easily deployable fire service training on two DVDs and one CD. Some of the video training materials include: Smoke Reading, Rapid Intervention Teams, Calling the Mayday, Seatbelt Use, Pre-Planning and Fitness. CD resources also include support materials for each of the video training modules included.
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In 2004, the first National Firefighter Life Safety Summit was held in Tampa, Florida. What resulted from that summit were the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives and the Everyone Goes Home® program. When many of us first became aware of the Everyone Goes Home® Program we thought to ourselves, "Bonus!" A lot of us already had a passion concerning firefighter safety and wellbeing. We had been out there for years challenging unnecessary firefighter injuries and deaths, while at the same time advocating change.
The Orange County Fire Authority hosted an Firefighter Safety Conference in February 2009. Three hundred firefighters attended the conference and twenty six were trained as Courage to Be Safe (SM) instructors. Most in attendance were from the Orange County Fire Authority; however firefighters from nineteen other fire departments also participated.
I was blessed again this year to attend the annual Fire Department Instructors Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana and it was again one of the best educational experiences of all time. As usual, it was well attended with approximately 28,000 firefighters from all over the world in attendance.
It was the perfect way to start a day of training, with the words of slide #16 of the Courage to Be Safe(SM) program becoming reality during a Train-the-Trainer class.
The two technical reports from this project, Fire Fighting Tactics Under Wind Driven Conditions: Laboratory Experiments and Fire Fighting Tactics Under Wind Driven Fire Conditions: 7-Story Building Experiments, as well as an accompanying instructional DVD set, document and discuss firefighting tactics demonstrated to reduce the thermal hazard created by a wind driven fire.
Danger is lurking and our firefighters must be aware and take immediate measures to protect their own safety, along with the safety of the public they are sworn to protect. All firefighters across America must become fully aware of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) systematic behind the scene maneuvering in state legislatures which is intended to erode the rights of the jurisdictions to adopt and enhance building construction codes at the local levels. This indeed is an outrageous overreach and sets a terrible precedent.
Two subjects that are starting to gain attention in the fire service are fire prevention and pre-planning. I have noticed more discussion and focus on these subjects throughout firefighting trade publications and online forums. I believe that we should consider pre-planning as an important and crucial component of fire prevention.
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Alexandria Fire Dept. - Baton Rouge, LA
May 16, 2009
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GJAC Auditorium & Gwinnett Fire Academy - Gwinnett County, GA
June 5 - 7, 2009
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Over 30 Locations Across the U.S.!
May - November 2009
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Carlisle, PA
June 7, 2009
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Everywhere!
June 14 - 20, 2009
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