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• Bridgeport Fire Department offers second chances to firefighters with criminal records

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  Program seeks to represent the full diversity of the community while giving qualified applicants a good job opportunity

• Understanding the fire service role in disaster preparedness, response and mitigation efforts

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  Outlining the response responsibilities helps departments better prepare and train for large-scale incidents

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  4 steps to using CAD to improve patient outcomes

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  Tyler Technologies

  When every moment matters, Tyler Technologies’ New World CAD gets critical information where it needs to go

• Crossing that bridge: Leadership requires action

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  Problem-solving is crippled when leaders fail to take bold and decisive action

• Examining the role of culture in firefighter deaths

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  Can NIOSH capture the impact of department culture rooted in unsafe actions?

• Rapid Response: Wis. FF’s death reinforces need to plan for violent events

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  Medical call turns violent, leaving firefighter dead, police officer and bystander wounded

• Company officer tips for staying motivated on the job

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  Keys to motivation include developing a vision, building a support system and changing bad behaviors

• Training Day: 3 ways to master SCBA operation

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  Use these scenarios to practice monitoring air consumption, operating the SCBA in PPE and buddy breathing

• How to improve interagency relationships in public safety

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  Focus on front-line operations, structured scalability and agency-specific enhancements

• Recruitment and retention efforts often need extra focus

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  Take whatever steps are necessary to recruit, retain, educate, hire, consolidate or reevaluate

• 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

• Three steps to collaborative fire service leadership

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  An evolving skill set, a focus on communication and new approaches to firefighter training will help to change the culture in the fire service

• The fire command experiential

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  Firefighter training emphasizing experiential learning, combined with inquiry and observation can improve fireground decision making

• Chiefs, what is your fire department culture?

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  It may be time to revisit your Value Statement to see if it aligns with reality

• Past IAFC Fire Chief of the Year winners recognize award as a team effort

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  Chiefs Richard "Smokey" Dyer and William Jenaway advise honorees to share the prestigious award with their entire department

• Firefighters experience near misses at marijuana grow facilities

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  More firefighter near-miss reports are expected from these facilities with unique hazards to employees and firefighters

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