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December 27, 2012

We hope that you are enjoying a safe and happy holiday!

In This Week's TRADENET

1. Mass transport casualty SOP/SOG request

2. (EFOP) Physical space ARP survey request (EFOP)

3. Leave donation guide request

4. Confined space rescue SOP/SOG request

Community Paramedic Conference Held

TRADE/FESHE National Professional Development Partnership Intiative

Implementing NFPA 1583: Standard on Helath-Related Fitness Programs for Fire Department Members

NTSB Offers New "Managing Transportation Mass Fatality Incidents" Course

TRADE Region I

Maine Fire Service Institute Directors’ bi-weekly newsletter

Member Requests for Information

If you have a question or comment for inclusion in the weekly TRADENET newsletter, please send it and your contact information to FEMA-trade@fema.dhs.gov. Please be sure and include your Department or Organization name, your e-mail address, and your preferred method of receiving feedback. USFA reserves the right to edit content or reject any material submitted.

Fire Services Page

 

1.

Portland (OR) Fire & Rescue is updating our policies for response to all types of mass-transit (city bus, streetcar, light rail, and passenger trains).  We would appreciate any SOPs, operational guidelines, or departmental policies that provide us with an idea of the 'best practices' for response to these different modes of mass transit.

Thank you in advance!

Chris Barney

Training Lieutenant, Portland Fire & Rescue 

 

chris.barney@portlandoregon.gov

503-823-1165 (work)

503-680-5863 (cell)

503-237-0726 (pager)

503-823-3893 (fax)

 

2.

Fellow firefighters,

How many times have you looked at a target hazard in your community and the first thought that comes to your mind is that the lack of space would hamper the effectiveness of your response. For my second year EFO ARP, I am looking to develop a tool to utilize to inform the community of the space and physical environment modern fire apparatus need to effectively operate. I will appreciate any input to help develop this tool for our community.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9W5X6CK

Thank you

Cliff Weed
Killingworth Volunteer Fire Company
Deputy Fire Marshal
cweed@engr.uconn.edu

 

3.

The Florence Fire Department is looking into policies that address trading or donating leave time to those who may have circumstances where they would need more time than they have on the books. If anyone has policies addressing this please e-mail them to me. Thank you.

Ken Carr

Fire Marshal/PIO

Florence Fire Department

843-665-3231 office

843-495-0320

kcarr@cityofflorence.com

 

4.

We are in the process of establishing our department as a Confined Space Rescue team. I have been tasked to developing SOPs/SOGs along with an annual training outline. I am in search of samples of the previous mentioned documents along with any other supporting documents that may be required for development.  Please feel free to email oem@florence-nj.com

Thank you.

Philip T. Drangula, CPM

Coordinator

Office Of Emergency Management

Florence Township

711 Broad Street

Florence NJ 08518

Voice (609)499-2525 Ext 275

Fax (609)499-1186

Cell (609)847-1712

www.facebook.com/FlorenceOEM

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Emergency Medical Services Page

There are no EMS requests this week.

Community Paramedic Conference Held

By Mike McEvoy
fireEMS Editor

The first National Consensus Conference on Community Paramedicine (NCCCP) took place October 1-2, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 100 EMS leaders attended with hundreds more joining through online video streaming with chat capability. The NCCCP was a joint venture of the Joint Committee on Rural Emergency Care (JCREC) and the North Central EMS Institute (NCEMSI), funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 

Discussions focused on community paramedic roles and educational requirements, integration with the medical community, medical direction and regulation, reimbursement and funding, quality improvement, evaluation and research. Participants plan to issue a research agenda by January 2013. Proceedings of the conference, including video feeds are available at www.communityparamedic.org/2012NCCCP.aspx.

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Featured This Week

TRADE/FESHE National Professional Development Partnership Intiative

By Michael McCabe, US Fire Administration Education Program Specialist

The National Fire Academy budget has seen many cuts and changes over the past few years due the current Federal fiscal crisis. The Training Resources and Data Exchange (TRADE) initiative has never been on the budget trimming agenda, until now.  These fiscal restraints certainly do not signal the end of TRADE, by any means.  We are simply applying the principle of "doing different with less" as a means of being good stewards of what public funds remain in our control.

This past week NFA Superintendent Denis Onieal has been forced to make some tough decisions regarding TRADE stipend funding.

With the conclusion of the discussion with the TRADE co-chairs about the current budget situation, it’s important to ensure that we’re all working from the same page:

  • We will continue to support TRADE activities through electronic means
  • TRADE regional course deliveries will continue, only site support and student travel stipends are affected
  • We may hold a professional development summit / conference here on campus. We will provide meeting space / dorm rooms.  There will be no stipend support as has been practice
  • If we hold the conference, we may be able to provide limited airport transportation
  • If we decide to deliver an NFA course tangential to the conference, we will support instructor costs, not student stipends

As a result, TRADE Co-Chairs are partnering with Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) to produce the National Professional Development Symposium (May 27-June 1, 2013).

Watch for more information and registration to begin in late January. Together we are developing means to continue to provide a high quality level of service through a dynamic and effective symposium.

 

Implementing NFPA 1583: Standard on Helath-Related Fitness Programs for Fire Department Members

By Gregg Squeglia

Fire Engineering Magazine

Firefighting is considered to be among the most physically demanding occupations. Long work shifts, heavy EMS call volumes, and the need to ramp up to full speed on a moment's notice all contribute to the potential for injury. Added to this is the aging process, which tends to make the workforce slower and stiffer over time. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has long been aware of the need for physical fitness programs for firefighters, and since the year 2000 has published NFPA Standard 1583, Standard for Health-Related Fitness Programs for Fire Department Members. The standard serves as an outline for the department’s command staff regarding physical fitness. It contains five components across the health and fitness spectrum which must be adhered to for a department to claim compliance. The components are

1. Assignment of a qualified health and fitness coordinator

2. Periodic fitness assessment for all members

3. An exercise training program that is available to all members

4. Education and counseling regarding health promotion for all members

5. Process for collecting and maintaining health-related fitness program data.

READ MORE: http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/2012/11/implementing-nfpa-1583-standard-for-health-related-fitness-programs-for-fire-department-members.html?sponsored=topic2&cmpid=EnlFireEMSDecember262012

 

NTSB Offers New "Managing Transportation Mass Fatality Incidents" Course

Please note that this is not an NFA sponsored activity

The National Transportation Safety Board

Transportation Disaster Assistance Division

 

TDA 406: Managing Transportation Mass Fatality Incidents

A Course for Emergency Managers, Law Enforcement, and the Medico-legal

Community

 

5-6 February 2013

8 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

 

This course is designed specifically for the emergency management, law enforcement, and medico-legal communities. In the wake of public transportation disasters, victim recovery and identification operations require a multiagency response. Success depends on the ability of these agencies to engage in a collaborative effort during the planning, operational, and drawdown phases of the response.

 

The core principles for managing the transition from first response and life safety operations into the decedent recovery and identification process are emphasized throughout the curriculum. A combination of lectures, case study discussions, and a table-top exercise are provided by the course instructors and by guest lecturers that have led mass-fatality responses within the United States.

 

A full course description and registration instructions are available at:

 

http://www.ntsb.gov/trainingcenter/CourseInfo/2013-Courses/TDA406_2013.html

 

Tuition is $1,034 (if registered by 5 January 2013); if registering between 6 January and

4 February, the tuition will be $1,084.

 

NTSB Training Center

45065 Riverside Parkway

Ashburn, Virginia 20147

Phone (202) 314-6175

www.ntsb.gov 

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National Events Calendar 

  • 12/31/2012 NFA Second Semester Application Period for 4/1/2013 to 9/30/2013 Courses Closes
  • FESHE Higher Institution Recognition application window closes:  January 31, 2013
  • Campus Safety Expo. - Columbus OH: March 4-5, 2013
  • EMS Today Conference and Exposition - Washington, D.C.: March 5-9, 2013
  • FDIC - Indianapolis, IN: April 22 - 27, 2013
  • Fire-Rescue Med Conference - Las Vegas, NV: May 3-7, 2013
  • National Professional Development Symposium - Emmitsburg, MD, May 30 - June 1, 2013
  • ImageTrens EDS Conference - Minneapolis, MN, July 17-19, 2013
  • NAEMSE National Symposium - Washington D.C.: August 5-10, 2013 
  • Fire Rescue International - Chicago, IL: August 13-17, 2013

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TRADE Regional Pages

TRADE Region I

Maine Fire Service Institute Directors’ bi-weekly newsletter

SEE ATTACHED

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TRADE Regional NFA Course Calendar

NFA Sponsored 2-Day Off-Campus Courses

2-day off-campus course descriptions, schedules, and application information

 

A strong partnership exists between NFA and State and local Fire Training Systems to advance the professional development of fire service personnel. This partnership has resulted in the ongoing development and delivery of the Academy's distance delivery curriculum.

Many volunteer and career fire service personnel cannot take time to attend resident programs, so these off-campus delivery courses, most of which are 2-days in length, provide training opportunities within the State and local communities. Courses are selected and cosponsored jointly by NFA and State and local fire training systems. States have the option of electing to use some/all off-campus deliveries as Train-the-Trainer Programs Course materials will be handed off in digital form to the State Training Systems hosting Train-the-Trainer deliveries.

For information on hosting a Two-Day Off-Campus course, e-mail the NFA Off-Campus Program Manager for your state.

See NFA Sponsored 2-Day off-campus Course List: http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/nfacourses/catalog/search?courseDeliveries=2&&forget=true

NFA Sponsored 6-Day and 10-Day Off-Campus Courses

6- and 10-day off-campus course descriptions, schedules, and application information

6- and 10-day deliveries are developed because of limited space at the Emmitsburg campus. These courses provide the fire service and allied professionals the opportunity to attend NFA on-campus courses within their geographical region. They mirror 6- and 10-day courses normally taught at NFA's resident facility. Although minor modifications sometimes are required, basic course content and materials are the same as on-campus courses. NFA provides two instructors per course, paralleling on-campus delivery, plus all training materials.

See NFA Sponsored Off-Campus 6-Day and 10-day Course list: http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/nfacourses/catalog/search?courseDeliveries=4&courseDeliveries=6&&forget=true

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