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Educating the public about safe handling of fireworks
Information to help you educate the public about safe transportation, storage, use and disposal of these explosive devices.
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Information to help you educate the public about safe transportation, storage, use and disposal of these explosive devices.
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Follow these steps when a required fire protection system is out of service for repair, replacement or another problem.
The application period for our second semester (April 1 to Sept. 30, 2020) courses is open from Oct. 15 to Dec. 15, 2019.
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Learn the threats from electric vehicle fires and how to reduce your risk when responding to them.
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Review this list of suspicious activities and report to law enforcement if you see one of them over the July Fourth holiday period.
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Can a simple exercise like a push-up be an inexpensive way for fire departments to assess cardiovascular disease risk in firefighters?
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As a first responder, you may find yourself at an incident where you suspect elder abuse. This guide provides information that will help you to recognize seven types of elder abuse and how to report it.
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This NFIRSGram explains how to ensure that your Computer-Assisted/Aided Dispatch (CAD) system is populating the correct data to the Incident Time and Incident Remarks/Narrative fields in NFIRS.
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Statistics
There are dozens of ways you can use Fire Is Everyone’s Fight to help teach people in your city or town to be safe from fire. Join the fight for a few ideas to get you started.
Down 22% compared to fatalities reported from Jan. 1 – June 15, 2018.
28 home fire fatalities were reported by the U.S. news media for June 9-15, 2019.
Older adults (65 and over) represent 27% of all fatalities.
New York leads the nation in reported fatalities with 67.
Share this video with your community to show residents how to increase the chance of surviving a home fire by more than 82% and decreasing fire damage by up to 97%.