Fire Prevention News

Call For Presentations: 2025 Community Risk Reduction Leadership Conference

July 29, 2024

Submit your presentation idea as part of the 2025 Community Risk Reduction (CRR) Leadership Conference today read more

Executive Officer Leadership: Mission: Protect

October 2016

The mission and meaning of protect. read more
NFA’s Growing Impact on Community Risk Reduction

October 2016

One goal of the USFA is to reduce risk and increase resiliency through programs and training in preparedness, prevention and mitigation, and the NFA has offered courses focused on prevention since it doors opened in 1980. read more
Proving Risk Reduction Works: The Case in Point

October 2016

Proving what we do works for our communities has always challenged fire and emergency services. Nevertheless, pressure to prove that our performance affects outcomes for the better has never been greater. read more
Fire & Life Safety- Leading Your Team to Success

July 15, 2016

Job satisfaction often hinges on the quality of relationships. Yet in today’s rapidly evolving, 24/7 workplaces, it’s not always clear what we should do to create satisfying work experiences and happy team members. read more
We All Know…

June 17, 2016

We all know “Everyone Goes Home”; that’s what it says on the black rubber bracelet I’m wearing. I think of it like a “WWJD” bracelet—a simple reminder for us to do all we can to ensure that it happens. read more
Fire & Life Safety: Hoarding and the EMS Responder

February 28, 2014

Hoarding is a prevalent and yet largely unseen problem. The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ... read more
Fire & Life Safety: Tackling Fire Prevention while Practicing ICS

April 30, 2014

There have been many successful, long-term campaigns to install smoke alarms in homes throughout neighborhoods, cities and states. In Des ... read more
Consumer Fireworks: Are They Really "Safe and Sane?"

April 30, 2014

The consumer fireworks industry wants the American public to believe their products are safer than ever. Fireworks manufacturers say that ... read more
Fire & Life Safety: Preventing the Predictable

June 2, 2014

Will you prevent the predictable? Yes, you. Will you? Begin with the foundation: Firefighting is a profession—a trade—that requires a ... read more
Campus Fire Safety: Securing Student Safety with Their Help

May 15, 2014

A campus can include residences, laboratories, daycare facilities, assembly locations, retail, industrial and agriculture, all with different fire-protection needs. Add ... read more