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Burning dead brush is important to protect our community. Look at this fantastic post from Stuart Burnham a Fire Marshal showing how to protect your home. Keep our community safe by having a safe burn site! Use an Air Curtain Destructor! Air Curtain Destructors are machines that turn a dumpster-like box or a pit in the ground into a furnace so that you can burn your debris instead of trucking it off site, but with a 95% reduction in smoke and few emissions or sparks. This protects air quality and against wildfires. This is possible because of the fast moving stream of air that covers the pit and circulates through the bottom. The fast moving air curtain stops the smoke, emissions, and sparks from escaping, while the cycle of air inside feeds oxygen into the fire and makes the fire burn very hot and fast.

🚨 Excited to expand my knowledge in life-saving skills! Just attended a seminar on Rescue 112 Training. 🚑👩🚒 Learning how to respond effectively in emergencies and make a difference in critical situations. #Rescue112 #LifesavingSkills #continuouslearning

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Is your department thinking about starting a junior firefighter program but is not sure where to start? The NVFC has released a new resource to help. Download the Junior Firefighter Program Starter Kit here:

Rescue# skills by using two groups one on the top of the cross arm of the power line tower and the second one from the ground level by using Miller and set of the rop access advanced skills

Training ordinary people to do extraordinary things requires an understanding of how we learn. Developing Firefighter Resiliency provides the roadmap for a journey to train, develop competency in skills, and capitalize on confidence. Purchase your copy today ➡️ https://ow.ly/uc5M50QE3BH

The Case for Situational Awareness Thermal Imaging Devices: Each year firefighters are injured and killed in structure fires. One of the common recommendations that could have prevented these injuries and deaths is the proper usage of thermal imaging cameras in these situations. However, the following facts will be hard to fight against in a court of law when a municipality fails to provide these life saving devices and/or training: * The lack of TIC usage is the 6th ranked risk factor in firefighter line of duty deaths. * 18.2% of all fire-ground injuries occurred from being lost or disoriented in a fire. * In the line of duty deaths that were studied up to 2010, the TIC was left on the charger of the fire truck in 38% of all these incidents. * NFPA 1408 (The thermal imaging training standard for firefighters) requires that the authority having jurisdiction shall provide training prior to placing these units in service, shall provide individual, team, and group training in classroom and live fire, and shall have written policies addressing training and usage of these devices during emergency incidents. To reference this data, please refer to the following research papers: * Maximizing Thermal Imaging Usage in Emergency Services by Michael Whitty In addition to this data, the work of Don Abbot’s Project MAY DAY shows the following: 22% of May Days Lost, Separated from Hose-line Learn more about the value of a situational awareness TIC in our FREE webinar by Seek Thermal https://lnkd.in/e6kmt2Zr

"Thank you to SELA PASS and AMBIENT SYSTEM for the insightful seminar on Public Address & Voice Evacuation Systems! It was a valuable learning experience."

https://lnkd.in/gY6pcUzM went through live webinar training. very informative and an amazing tool! be sure to check this out and add it to your home lab! let the #ThreatHunting begin!!

See the recorded #webinar “ADVANCEing FieldSafety: Training for #diverse and inclusive #geoscience teams - A new course and toolkit.” ADVANCEing FieldSafety is a program that provides field research teams with the training and tools to promote #safe and #inclusive environments, identify and mitigate unsafe and harmful behaviors, and create a culture within field teams that reduces the likelihood and impact of these behaviors in the future. During this webinar, the latest in the AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs series, panelists discuss: - the development of an asynchronous online training course and an accompanying toolkit of references and resources for field teams, - the different certification pathways for training participants, - how the training addresses the new NSF PAPPG for safe and inclusive field environments (2E9), and - our research plan for studying the effectiveness of the training course and Toolkit resources for participants and field teams. ADVANCEing FieldSafety is an NSF-funded collaboration between CU-Boulder and the ADVANCEGeo Partnership. View now: https://lnkd.in/eCt5MQt9