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• LAFD gets $1.6M to staff 11 ambulances with overtime crews until June

  
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  Breaking news from the Los Angeles Times: City Council finds money to halt controversial LAFD staffing plan Kate Linthicum The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to give the Fire Department $1.6 million to reverse a controversial new ambulance staffing plan. The money will pay for the agency to add ...
  1 week ago

• “A period of great change”

  
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  Engineering-based fire suppression For 85 years the Fire Department Instructors Conference has been the mecca for new ideas and innovative trends. The 1950 "Little Drops of Water" presentation by Lloyd Layman generated a dozen years of structural firefighting using a high pressure pump to inject water spray into a ...
  3 weeks ago

• UAVs + VSee for NIST Wildland Fire Protection

  
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  Last week, a wildfire outbreak shut down some main roads near my home for 2 days. Luckily no one was hurt, and there was little damage to homes, but this isn’t always the case. Award-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston once lost the entire manuscript of her new book to an Oakland wildfire which also burned down ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are You Surrounded By The Right People For Success?

  
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  This weekend I took an Advanced Auto Extrication course for the fire department. Although I’ve been doing auto ex for 13 years, it’s a skill that must continually be updated as car technology changes. The way we cut apart cars today is not the same as we did it when I started. Working As A [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Landmark High-Rise Fire Study Evaluates Effectiveness of Crew Sizes, Elevator Use

  
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  When responding to fires in high-rise buildings, firefighting crews of five or six members—instead of three or four—are significantly faster in putting out fires and completing search-and-rescue operations, concludes a major new study carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Erickson’s Aero Tanker MD-87

  
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  It seems that the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is following the path set by the Douglas DC-9.  That is to say, it is an airplane that keeps on going.  The latest version of this airplane is finding a new life as a water bomber.  The process started earlier this year. Wild fires are extremely dangerous and [...]
  4 weeks ago

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