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The FireRescue1 Special Coverage resource center captures all special coverage projects, including digital editions, like “Your Mayday Survival Guide” and “Dirty Helmet Syndrome”; eBooks, like “The Big 3: Training and tactics for residential, high-rise and warehouse fires” and “NFPA 3000: Preparing and training firefighters for active shooter incidents”; and unique special projects. Download these resources to review and share with your crewmembers, whether as a training tool, leadership guide or talking point at the firehouse kitchen table.

FireRescue1.com spotlights exceptional individuals within the American fire service, from the newest recruits eager to serve to the fire chiefs who have been committed to the job for decades, as well as unique fire departments that serve special response areas or that were created to serve a highly specialized need.

The death of a firefighters is a tragic event, not only for the firefighters’ family and friends but also their fire service family. The FireRescue1 Firefighter death information and resources page shares news about firefighter line-of-duty deaths (LODDs), off-duty deaths, memorials and remembrance events, and how the fire service can honor its fallen brothers and sisters.

The Firefighter Humor topic covers firefighter jokes, funny firehouse stories, and humorous firefighter videos that all go to show the lighter and fun side of firefighting and being a firefighter.

Policies are the foundation for all operations in the fire service. From apparatus backing to anti-retaliation, policies set expectations, provide guidance, and protect firefighters and fire departments. This section highlights how fire department policies play out in the real world, while also connecting you with best practices for drafting, updating and ensuring accountability with policies.

The FireRescue1 fire service culture resource page encompasses the cultural aspects of firefighter life, from the traditions that make the fire service such a proud profession to the kitchen table conversations that develop a brotherhood and sisterhood among members, to critical discussions about firefighter health and safety, focusing on the impact of culture on behavior and decision-making, both on and off the fireground.

The FireRescue1 fire sprinklers resource page offers news about fire sprinklers, like the battles between public safety and the construction industry over their installation in new construction, local work to retrofit older buildings with sprinklers, and fire incidents that were impacted by the presence or lack of fire sprinklers; plus information about how fire officers can advocate for fire sprinklers in their areas.