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Learning Resource Center Update
This Week's Highlights
- 9 years ago - The Station Nightclub Fire | West Warwick, RI | February 20, 2003 | 100 fatalities | About this incident |
- Watch this short informational video about the programs of the US Fire Administration: Click here.
Current Awareness: Weekly News Roundups - Just updated
- All-Hazards News and Information: http://www.lrc.fema.gov/news_allhaz.html
- Fire Prevention in the News : http://www.lrc.fema.gov/news_fireprev.html
LRC RSS Feed Digest :
Follow LRC updates: http://www.lrc.fema.gov/news.xml
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Station Nightclub Fire: revisiting the lessons learned
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Guidelines for developing emergency simulations and drills
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NIST Report on Texas Fire Urges Firefighters to Consider Wind Effects
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A hidden threat: pipeline emergency planning and response tools
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Was 2011 the Costliest Year for Emergencies?
LRC Fire Prevention Feed Digest :
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Sides prepare to support, fight sprinkler mandate for new homes
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Fires raise concern about emergency preparedness among college students
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Residential sprinkler systems gaining popularity
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Sprinkler system helped save man's life
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Residential sprinklers: opposition despite good performance
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Put a lid on it: 2011 cooking fire safety tool kit
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Social media creates new options for fire prevention
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City may push state fire-sprinkler law
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Humberside Fire Service to fit fire sprinklers in at-risk homes
New at the LRC Last Week
- All new library materials (135 new items this week)
- Downloadable titles
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- Firefighter Fatalities/Health/Safety
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- Geographic Information Systems
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- Higher Education - Fire Service
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- Mass casualties
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- Training - Fire Service
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