Handouts with easy-to-understand messages you can use to encourage fire-safe behaviors in your community.
Materials include brochures, checklists, posters, flyers and social media assets. Download for free today!
Research findings on how using a powerful mathematical technique (Linear Discriminant Analysis) in home smoke alarms, combined with inexpensive microcontrollers, can reduce nuisance alarms.
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Three new reports look at the characteristics of fires in one- and two-family and multifamily homes and other residential buildings.
Read the free reports.
Two new reports look at the characteristics of home fire fatalities and injuries for the period 2011-2013.
Download the fatalities report. PDF 662 KB
A study of after action reviews from major disasters of the past decade to gain insight into lessons learned.
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Help prepare your community for hazards like wildfires by participating in National PrepareAthon! Day.
Visit the PrepareAthon! website for activity ideas and strategies to promote your day of action.
Learn about the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy, which focuses on restoring and maintaining landscapes, fire-adapted communities and response to fire.
For the experienced fire investigator, this course provides important principles and applications of fire dynamics and computer fire modeling to help you understand and describe fire phenomena and fire scene reconstruction. You will explore various tools used to develop fire cause determination theories. Read the course description.
Course dates: Jan. 17-22, 2016 | March 6-11, 2016 | July 31 - Aug. 5, 2016 | Sept. 18-23, 2016
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Share this infographic with your community and help promote this year’s Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 4-10) theme: “Hear the BEEP where you SLEEP.” (Also available in Spanish PDF 4 MB)
Explore other smoke alarm outreach materialsRecent releases from USFA
Sept. 10 Critical Infrastructure Protection InfoGram
National Safety Culture Change Initiative report
Coffee Break Training: Fire Protection (Administration) – The Importance of Inspections PDF 138 KB
Coffee Break Training: Marketing Your Fire Safety Program PDF 95 KB
Managing Officer Program Handbook PDF 256 KB
USFA has recently received notice of the following firefighter fatalities:
60 on-duty fatalities reported in 2015.
87 on-duty fatalities reported in 2014.
home fire fatalities reported in 2015.
39 home fire fatalities were reported by the U.S. news media for Aug. 30 - Sept. 5.
compared to fatalities reported from Jan. 1 - Sept. 5, 2014.
Older adults (65 and over) represent 28 percent of all fatalities.
Pennsylvania leads the nation in reported fatalities with 97.
Share this video with your community to show residents how to increase the chance of surviving a home fire by more than 82 percent and decreasing fire damage by up to 97 percent.
