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• Grant applications struggles: How to describe our department and area coverage

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  When struggling to find the words, think about how you talk to fellow firefighters and focus on the basics

• Have you forgotten? A call to chiefs to remember who they serve

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  Show your firefighters that you haven’t forgotten them, their sacrifices or the love of the job

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  Making performance evaluations worth it (white paper)

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  This white paper details four mistakes commonly made by public safety agencies when it comes to evaluating personnel

• 7 ways to prepare your fire department for the next recession

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  Now is the time to take action, before reduced revenues and budget cuts tighten their grip on the balance sheet

• The wheels on the truck … fall off?

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  Video shows damaged engine after losing rear axle en route to call

• 12 things your fire department should be paying for

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  It is sometimes difficult to know what equipment, training and miscellaneous expenses our agencies should cover

• 8 questions to ask apparatus vendors at a trade show or conference

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  Apparatus manufacturer representatives offer tips for maximizing your time at fire service trade shows

• Georgia Pacific announces grant opening and offers educational materials

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  The grant is open to departments located within a 30-mile radius of a Georgia Pacific facility

• Finding adaptive solutions: Birmingham C.A.R.E.S. treats “frequent fliers”

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  Birmingham community paramedicine program identifies individuals with needs in order to reduce unnecessary future calls taxing the system

• Wyo. Fire Department faces staffing shortages within town limits

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  Mills officials voted to reduce the Mills Fire Department to administrative-only roles and would lay off nine full-time firefighters

• Sacramento firefighters request budget increase to improve response time

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  The department needs money for more ambulances and $2 million to add improvements and staff to reopen Fire Station 9.

• U.S. Forest Service witholds Calif. wildfire payments, claims overbilling

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  The Forest Service conducted an audit of the California Fire Assistance Agreement and claims the state's reimbursement request of $72 million is inflated

• Rhode Island firefighter OT bill to become law

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  The bill mandates overtime pay for local firefighters after they work an "average" 42-hour week — which is already the case in most, but not all, Rhode Island communities

• 4 rural Ore. fire districts to form single agency

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  The new agency of about 35 firefighters and medics will cover about 450 square miles and will cost the same for people within its boundaries

• Ala. councilman accuses fire dept. of conspiracy against ambulance service

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  Councilman Charles Kirby believes the conspiracy is born out of the Fire Department’s jealousy of the Police Department because it can generate revenue with traffic citations

• Ohio city officials may approve $3.5M fire station

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  Officials are leaning towards building a new station instead of renovating the current one

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