Fire Chief Digital Edition

Full list of Fire Chief Digital Edition results

• The fire chief's role in firefighter mental health

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  Fire chiefs play two critical roles in identifying and correcting firefighter mental-health issues – at both the macro and micro levels

• Risk management at every level

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  Understanding the role of firefighters, company officers and chiefs

• Firefighter mental health and crime: What's the correlation?

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  A firefighter-turned-psychologist breaks down what strategies fire departments can put into place to prevent firefighter-specific crimes

• FirstNet: Fire service connectivity in action

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  This special edition offer insights into what fire chiefs need to know about adopting FirstNet, including budget implications, training, mutual aid and other essential information

• Fire Chief Digital: How to prevent injury and death on the road

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  This issue focuses on improvements in apparatus safety, and the need for a renewed look at the importance of driver training and operator understanding

• Q&A: The No. 1 issue in building a fire station? Location.

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  Listen to firefighters and other stakeholders to evaluate what's needed when planning for a new facility

• How to plan a new fire station for your community

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  To gain support for a new fire station, fire chiefs must understand and address their community's needs

• Case study: Radical fire station concept marks 20 years

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  Building a fire station inside a shopping mall may seem like an outlandish idea, but more than 20 years later it is a fixture in the community

• New station construction: Three small departments share lessons learned

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  Successful fire station construction or renovation requires careful planning, patience, commitment and buy-in from all involved

• How to prep your department for WUI fires

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  Wildland fires are migrating into populated areas with greater frequency and severity, and taming these beasts requires a whole different mindset than structural firefighting

• Q&A: WUI fire expert shares best practices for prevention, mitigation

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  Colorado WUI expert examines what fire chiefs in urban and suburban areas need to know to cut the risk and severity of WUI fires

• Learn from past wildfires to fight future blazes

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  Understanding the scope and costs of historic and recent wildfires is necessary to plan for future fire-suppression efforts

• Fire Chief Digital: Facing the growing WUI fire threat

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  This issue focuses on the history, current trends and future of the WUI fire threat

• Disciplining fire officers

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  Like fires, the best discipline outcomes are those that never happen in the first place; here's how to ward off discipline-worthy behavior and what to do when those efforts fail

• A case for investing in fire officer development

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  With so much responsibility riding on officers' shoulders, fire departments need to invest in their professional growth

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