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Practice your report writing skills


Speaking to an education session at FRI in Denver Thursday, Mary Sovick, owner/instructor of Fireline Training and Consulting, stressed the importance of writing skills. "You need to do the job right – and you must be able to prove it," she said. One easy tip: don't use acronyms like LOC that don't have set meanings. "Abbreviations get us in trouble when we don't have them standardized," said Sovick.

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