By Alison Sandor
CFRA
OTTAWA, Ontario — Ottawa Fire is set to lead a three-year multi-national ‘fire dynamics’ project that will help set the standards for how fire fighters fight blazes. The project will basically re-write the “how-to” hand book for fighting fires.
“That is the intent, over this three-year journey of developing this curriculum is it gets implemented fairly quickly and next generation fire fighters and current fire fighters, obviously, approach these environments better educated, better equipped and better practiced in terms of how to respond to these environments,” Ottawa Fire Chief John deHooge told CFRA.
He said a push over the years for more affordable homes and furniture has led to a change in the way fires burn.
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