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Arson Awareness Week May 2‑8
This year's Arson Awareness Week highlights critical actions that first responders must take to help ensure a safe response to arson fires during civil unrest incidents.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends a transition away from crisis capacity conservation strategies implemented during COVID-19, including decontamination of disposable respirators for reuse.
A team from Colorado State University found that long-range smoke was associated with increases in hospitalizations and increased risk of death from cardiovascular outcomes.
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InfoGram
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) National Emphasis Program will review agency respiratory programs and use inspections to protect workers against COVID-19.
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Guidance for critical infrastructure owners and operators to reduce vaccine hesitancy risk and encourage COVID-19 vaccines.
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POINTER will enhance situational awareness at challenging incident scenes by locating first responders via low frequency magnetic fields.
Read the articleWildfire Report Series
The first report in our Wildfire Report Series investigates the feasibility of using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data as a means for identifying wildfire incidents that may be missing from 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.
Up 22% compared to deaths reported from Jan. 1 – April 10, 2020.
59 home fire deaths were reported by the U.S. news media for April 4‑10.
Older adults (65 and over) represent 25% of all deaths.
Pennsylvania leads the nation in reported deaths with 57.
Share this video to learn how to prevent exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These substances are linked to cancer and may be present in firefighting foam.
