U.S. Fire Administration Learning Resource Center Updates
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Learning Resource Center Update
This Week's Highlights
- Fire service history materials in the LRC: Click here
- It happened this week: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871: Click here
- 2011 Fire Prevention Week Proclamation: 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 :
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Great Chicago Fire: 8-10 Oct 1871
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Great Peshtigo Fire: 8-9 Oct 1871
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Recently added - Three Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports
NIOSH -
NETC Library Weekly Update
NETC Library -
Fire service history resources
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In the news...Fire Prevention Realities Change, Following Huge Wild Fires
KPBS -
Record-Making Smoke Jumper Makes His Last (Official) Leap
NYTimes
LRC Fire Prevention Feed Digest :
- In the news...Home sprinkler systems save lives
- In the news...Survive Alive house helps kids learn fire safety
- In the news...Bayside music festival promotes fire safety
- In the Exchange...Burn prevention tips
- In the news...Fire department offers home safety inspections
- In the news...What happens to the heart when the home is gone?
- In the news...Special smoke detectors give the deaf a fighting chance
- In the news...Fire Prevention Realities Change, Following Huge Wild Fires
- In the news...London Fire Brigade use Facebook in Fire Safety Blitz
Civilian residential fire fatalities reported in the news media since last Monday: 34
For more details visit: http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/subjects/fireprev/qr/fatalities/index.shtm . This site will be updated with this weekend’s 22 fatalities later today.
New at the LRC Last Week
- All new library materials (197 new items this week)
- Downloadable titles
- Prevention and Public Education Exchange
- EFO Papers
Selected Fire/EMS/Emergency Mngt topics:
- Arson
- Campus safety
- Codes
- Disaster planning/preparedness
- Emergency Management
- Emergency Medical Services
- Emergency response
- Explosions
- Extrication
- Fire behavior
- Fire Prevention
- Fire Protection
- Fire Service/Fire Departments
- Fire statistics/research
- Firefighter Fatalities/Health/Safety
- Firefighting Ops/Incident Command
- Funding/Grants
- HazMat
- Homeland Security
- Human Behavior in fires
- Interagency Cooperation
- Investigations
- Leadership/Personnel Management
- Lessons Learned/Fire Histories/Close calls
- Mass casualties
- Mass Evacuation
- Nuclear/Radiological Hazards
- Pandemics
- Public Health
- Rescue Operations
- Resiliency/Critical Infrastructure
- Risk communications/social media
- Risk evaluation/management
- Structural hazards
- Terrorism
- Training - Fire Service
- Training - Emergency Mngt
- Volunteer firefighters
- 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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