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• Practical risk management for firefighters

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  6 ways to ensure you are effectively managing your risk and staying safe

• Ind. city council votes to reverse controversial firefighter shift changes

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  The city's mayor still may veto the decision and seek to enforce the eight-hour shift schedule that union members say is detrimental

• The fire chief as chief risk manager

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  Effectively reducing the risks facing your department and your personnel requires embracing this unique role

• Conflict over noose found in Miss. FD locker

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  A Mississippi firefighter who was disciplined and later resigned after hanging a noose in his locker says he didn't have racist intentions

• How fire departments can gain community support at the ballot box

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  Many departments need community support for financial or organizational requests – and this requires a different type of preplanning and action

• Taking ownership: 'If it's not your emergency, then whose is it?'

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  An argument to take ownership of emergencies, with a "go-now/go-later" mentality

• N.Y. fire department cited for drill team safety violations

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  A notice of violation said the fire department put team members at risk of falling from racing vehicles traveling at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour

• Cleveland FD accused of discriminating against minority, female candidates in hiring process

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  The city's mayor rejected allegations made by a federal commission that the fire department's testing process for applicants was discriminatory

• Mass. firefighters vote 'no confidence' in longtime fire chief

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  The Andover Firefighters Union unanimously voted "no confidence" in Chief Michael Mansfield and published a letter of what they say are examples of poor management

• Discipline and the opportunity for atonement

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  Why fire departments must embrace discipline in order to protect the integrity of the organization and the employee

• Audit: L.A. firefighter earned $360K in overtime pay in 1 year

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  LAFD spokesman Peter Sanders said the department relies on overtime as part of its "constant staffing" model

• NM ambulance service, fire dept. at odds over transport authority

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  City officials are asking for a certificate that would allow Albuquerque Fire and Rescue to transport all emergency patients to local hospitals

• Chicago Fire Department officials face calls for greater diversity in ranks

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  Chicago has the largest number of women fighting fires and working on ambulances of any city in the country, but they make up less than 10% of the department's total personnel

• Miss. firefighters transport 3-year-old to hospital in fire truck

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  Officials said no ambulances were available due to an influx of calls around the same time as the toddler's drowning

• Pa. fire chief, 16 others removed from volunteer fire dept.

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  Fire department board president Jeff Stivenson said Vernon Township VFD was reorganizing to "better protect the community"

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