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August 15, 2024
Engineer Manny Sharp (center) of the Medford (Oregon) Fire Department was announced the winner of the 2024 Ben Franklin Award for Valor at the IAFC’s Fire-Rescue International conference in Dallas.
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October 31, 2017
In the fire service, whose job is community relations? Most folks would probably say the fire prevention and education division or the PIO. The real answer is much larger than these two.
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October 16, 2017
Though the trend in fire deaths has decreased for the older adult population, older adults still face the greatest relative risk of dying in a fire.
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October 16, 2017
Traditionally, intellectual capacity has been seen as a primary indicator of one’s ability to succeed. Emotional intelligence is now also considered a crucial element in individual and professional success.
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September 26, 2017
Community education needs be at the forefront of our minds. If we can educate our communities in risk reduction, lives will be saved.
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September 2017
Many chief officers have prepared for and experienced many types of fireground situations. Countless lives have been saved based on quick, decisive actions. How do these processes transfer to administrative decisions these same officers must make?
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September 2017
Exposure to the trauma of others is an occupational challenge for first responders. Organ-izations can mitigate the negative impacts of vicarious trauma—and it’s their duty and responsibility to do so. The VTT was designed to help.
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August 28, 2017
In major disasters, such as Hurricane Harvey, the fire service needs to be disciplined in its response, ready and available.
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August 18, 2017
Guide provides steps for departments to start their own succession plans and includes a history of succession management in the fire-rescue service.
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August 17, 2017
One of the questions many training officers and fire chiefs struggle with is how to structure professional and career development programs within their departments.
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August 17, 2017
Leadership development—what does that really mean? Can you develop people into becoming good leaders, or are leaders just born to be leaders?
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March 4, 2024
The IAFC is now accepting nominations for the IAFC Fire Chief of the Year Award through May 17. Since 1996, this prestigious award has recognized one volunteer and one career fire chief.
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March 1, 2024
Congratulations to the IAFF on their 106 years of service representing more than 343,000 career firefighters and paramedics.
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February 28, 2024
President John Butler announces the names of the individuals who have been accepted into the iDELP program as fellows in Cohort 3
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