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"Disaster Deployment Basics" – Part D, Returning Home What you need to know your first time out. www.FullyInvolvedFire.com More articles, Plus Online Incident Command Simulators! Part D – Returning home:                         As your mission is brought to a close and you begin the demobilization process you may or may not be ready to go home. You may feel that there ...

"Disaster Deployment Basics" – Part C, Deployment Phase What you need to know your first time out. www.FullyInvolvedFire.com More articles, Plus Online Incident Command Simulators! Part B – Deployment Phase            When you find yourself on a deployment you may not know the other members of your team. When I went out for western fire detail, I met up with 20 other ...

"Disaster Deployment Basics" – Part B, Pre Deployment What you need to know your first time out. www.FullyInvolvedFire.com More articles, Plus Online Incident Command Simulators! Part B – Pre-Deployment             Planning and preparation will have a tremendous impact on the success of your deployment. It is difficult to be entirely prepared and packed since the experience can differ dramatically depending on ...

"Disaster Deployment Basics" – Part A, Introduction What you need to know your first time out. www.FullyInvolvedFire.com More articles, Plus Online Incident Command Simulators! Part A – Introduction: Disasters can strike anytime, anywhere.  Some may be predictable while otherscan occur without any warning. Often these events affecting so many lives that it is beyond the capability of local resources to handle. ...

Behavior of fire in a confined area.

"Overstating the importance of training may not be possible in the fire service." There has been talk in the groups and forums on this site of a problem that most if not all smaller departments encounter....getting people to get the training they need.  I'm hearing more and more of departments that would like to do more training, but they are discouraged ...

I thought this was an interesting article to say the least.....although I'm not saying that my experience as a female firefighter has been the same as described in this article or that I agree with all of it, but it's interesting!  After reading this, I feel even luckier to have had the caliber of training that I've received!!

New wildland fire training system is nation's first single training source to provide "Red-Card" certification.

"Rural departments should not rely on preconnects to cover great distances & produce great flows". Article in Jan 2009 issue of Fire Rescue magazine by Patrick Pauly.

This is a pretty sweet link to scenerios with Video Simulators.  Not a bad training tool!

The reports as a result of research conducted in regards to Thermal Imagers is available for viewing. "This research partnership has developed critical information to support the development of a national standard on Thermal Imaging Technology that previously did not exist which will enhance the safety of our nation's firefighters."  Click link to review those findings.

A free program in illinois that provides free training to Fire Depts.  An instructor from the Illinois Fire service Institute will actually come to your Dept.

Free pdf download for the U.S. Fire Administration Voice Radio Communications Guide for the Fire Service - october2008

Inspection Techniques U.S. Fire Administration / National Fire Academy Coffee Break Training For archived downloads, go to: www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/coffee-break/ No. 2008-31 July 29, 2008 Topic: Clearances from Heat-Producing Appliances Learning Objective: The student shall be able to address minimum required clearances from infrared heaters. Every inspector knows that the combination of heating appliances and combustible materials can create a dangerous environment. If ...

http://www.interfire.org/features/wildfires2.asp For part two of this informative guide.

Wildfire Investigations part 1 Go here http://www.interfire.org/features/wildfires.asp

http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_Hurricane_Facts/atmospheric_test_confined.pdf

Maryland - The U.S. Fire Administration and the National Fire Academy announce the availability of the new National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) 5.0 Self Study (Q494) online course. Serving as an introduction to NFIRS 5.0, this self-study course provides an overview of the data collection system, its modules, and data conversion issues. "We are pleased to make this important ...