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This Week's Highlights
- Presidential Proclamations- Fire Prevention Week - read the texts of these proclamations - from 1925 to present, along with the first Fire Prevention Day proclamations beginning with Woodrow Wilson in 1920: Click here
- It happened this week - Great Peshtigo Fire, October 8th 1871: Click here
- What's new in our library display? This month: 140th Anniversaries of the Great Chicago Fire | & the Great Peshtigo Fire.| Also Sparky Celebrates 60 years. |
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
- Freedom Tower to include advanced high-rise fire safety features
Plumbing Engineer - Improving Response to Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters Affecting Food and Agriculture
GAO - Fallout Preparedness Checklist Helps Cities Plan Wisely
Homeland Security Today - Managing Forests To Manage Wildfires
NPR - Study examines origins of Spanish influenza epidemic
LA Times
LRC Fire Prevention Feed Digest :
- New Exchange item: Have an exit strategy
- In the news...Wildfire preparedness saves lives, property
- In the news...ECHO Minnesota: cultural toolkit
- Presidential Fire Prevention Week Proclamations - 1925 - present
- In the exchange...Fire and ice
New at the LRC Last Week
- All new library materials (137 new items this week)
- Downloadable titles
- Prevention and Public Education Exchange
Selected Fire/EMS/Emergency Mngt topics:
- Arson
- Campus safety
- Codes
- Disaster planning/preparedness
- Emergency Management
- Emergency Medical Services
- Emergency response
- Emergency vehicles/design
- Explosions
- Extrication
- Fire behavior
- Fire Prevention
- Fire Protection
- Fire statistics/research
- Firefighter Fatalities/Health/Safety
- Firefighting Ops/Incident Command
- Geographic Information Systems
- HazMat
- Higher Education - Fire Service
- Homeland Security
- Interagency Cooperation
- Investigations
- Leadership/Personnel Management
- Lessons Learned/Fire Histories/Close calls
- Mass casualties
- Mass Evacuation
- Natural disasters
- Nuclear/Radiological Hazards
- Pandemics
- Prefire planning
- Public Health
- Rapid Intervention Teams
- Rescue Operations
- Resiliency/Critical Infrastructure
- Risk communications/social media
- Risk evaluation/management
- Structural hazards
- Terrorism
- Training - Fire Service
- Training - Emergency Mngt
- Wildfires
The United States Fire Administration recommends everyone should have a comprehensive fire protection plan that includes smoke alarms, residential sprinklers, and practicing a home fire escape plan.
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