Fire Department Management
The fire department management topic focuses on fire service leadership, from the high-level management issues facing fire chiefs to the administrative functions and budget issues that impact day-to-day operations.
Colona Fire Chief John Swan said the proposed standards could lead to longer response times and more people dying
Rapid or poorly managed cultural shifts can lead to resistance, confusion and a breakdown in cohesion among personnel
The fire service must embrace a culture of operating safely and managing risk appropriately
Volunteer fire departments need a clear and guiding mission to serve their communities now and tomorrow
Candidates give their take on how they would run the department
Without the grant, budget cuts and union concessions could have the station open in 2013
The area is considering two plans if voters fail to approve the tax, both involve closing stations and laying off firefighters
Commissioner: ‘A lot of the issues we are dealing with in the Fire Department are similar to those we had with the police’
Received hundreds of thousands in snowplowing contracts; city rules prohibit such deals
The city council approved the $13 per mile fee, but fee won’t help close operating losses from uninsured users
Small tissue was said to be for training a cadaver dog
In past 6 years, only 5 black men, 4 white women have been included in academy’s 119 graduates
Following a massive downtown fire, the fire department will inspect 600 buildings and request changes to the fire code
Government officials are told they are ‘playing with people’s lives’
Police: Coroner allegedly gave human remains to Chief Vincent Salerno, 50, for ‘noncriminal use’
After a fire destroyed his 130-year-old building, its owner made a huge monetary donation to show his gratitude
Response time for basic life support calls have increased 1 minute 18 seconds on average
Judge immediately sentenced him to life in prison
Knoxville Fire Department maintaining watch on 9-acre site that burned for nearly 1 week before firefighters gained control
Coastside Fire Protection District directors spend part most meetings on resurrecting stand-alone department
An effective fire department leader must keep fact and conjecture separate when dealing with firefighters
The proposed rule change would remove the requirement that the fire chief is part of civil service
Plan would allow vacant buildings to burn if they’re more than 50% ablaze
Bill Gault accused deputy mayor for public safety of trying ‘to score cheap political and public image points’
The possibilities for recruitment are endless for fire departments
A rural emergency incident requires the timely response of rescuers, response equipment and transport vehicles
IamResponding.com is a Web-based platform for managing everything to do with volunteer or on-call emergency response agencies
Children playing with lighter likely started blaze, station 1/5 mile away shuttered due to budget cuts
Fire chief not responsible for putting names in database
Acting fire chief is also CFO of hydroponics company that targets medical marijuana market
Department has faced recent complaints that it has failed to meet national standards of responding to calls within 5 minutes
Those who rallied against proposal said they didn’t feel new station should be placed in residential neighborhood
Shelby Township Fire Chief Gene Shepherd, 56, was diagnosed with clear-cell sarcoma last year, plans to retire in Dec.