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• Unprecedented: Second round of AFG-S grants to open in October

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  Volunteer and combination departments have a second opportunity to secure COVID-19 PPE-related funding

• 7 truths about fire service retirement

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  If you think it is hard to get into the fire service, wait until you try to get out; here are things you can do now to navigate that end-of-career change

• A faded lesson from 9/11

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  When we say, "Never forget," we need to remember, and live the too-soon-forgotten aftereffects of the Sept. 11 attacks

• 9 key questions you must be able to answer during budget negotiations

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  People expect more than an impassioned plea; they want data-driven details

• Turning a pandemic negative into a technology positive

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  How a self-proclaimed “tech dinosaur” learned to maintain virtual connections with members, the media, vendors and partners

• Purging Mr. Hyde: 3 ways to cultivate the good within our ranks

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  Using a ‘personal 360’ can help minimize the mistakes that compromise the public’s trust in the fire service

• Financial mismanagement: The other smoldering fire

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  Put controls in place to prevent fire department fraud, embezzlement and other financial (and PR) nightmares

• Is the firefighter 48/96 shift a health hazard?

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  Knowing where firefighters are on this shift and how busy they are can help those running rehab sectors

• Speccing a new pumper: Where to begin – Part 1

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  Review NFPA 1901, define the pumper’s mission, calculate weight, consider pump types and CAFS, and more

• Be careful how you spend your department’s CARES funding

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  Talk to an attorney or CPA to get clarity, and work through some of the Act’s oddities before spending any money

• Video: Firefighters in Fire Trucks Getting Ice Cream – Return to Sawtooth

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  Considering the actions taken during a California wildfire that led to firefighters’ entrapment

• Q&A: The fire service’s evolving role in mass violence response

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  Reviewing the impact of civil unrest, the need to coordinate with other agencies, plus training on active shooter and fire as a weapon

• Survey results: Do firefighters support the display of thin red line flags?

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  FireRescue1 readers weigh in on thin red and blue line flags, which invoke disagreement over policy, politics and how to best honor the fallen

• It’s coming from inside the house: Internal intentional misconduct in public safety

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  We must address public safety personnel who lie, cheat, steal, perjure, beat, molest, assault, falsify, embezzle and do otherwise bad things

• Warehouse fires: The big fire that requires big water

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  What firefighters need to know about size-up, ventilation, fire attack – and when to go defensive

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