Current Events and Issues
Mitigating wildfire vulnerability: one community's success story
Learn how the Montecito Fire Protection District used a socio-ecological mitigation approach to successfully fight the Thomas Fire.
Overcome literacy barriers by communicating safety messages with pictures
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Learn how the Montecito Fire Protection District used a socio-ecological mitigation approach to successfully fight the Thomas Fire.
Coffee Break Bulletin
Learn the threats from electric vehicle fires and how to reduce your risk when responding to them.
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InfoGram
Community visibility is crucial not only for your department's growth, but also for its survival. You can use visual clues, citizen education and engagement, and the media to keep your department in residents' minds.
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U.S. Fire Administrator Keith Bryant recently attended the Public Safety Officers Medal of Valor ceremony at the White House. Two firefighters from the Lenexa (Kansas) Fire Department were recognized for their heroism.
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A free assessment tool can show your department where it can improve to place a stronger value on safety culture and help prevent firefighter injuries and deaths.
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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 20% compared to fatalities reported from Jan. 1 – July 13, 2018.
29 home fire fatalities were reported by the U.S. news media for July 7-13, 2019.
Older adults (65 and over) represent 27% of all fatalities.
New York leads the nation in reported fatalities with 71.
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%.