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Let’s Start “Hitting” Fire Where It “Lives”
By: Robert Avsec My wife—and by proxy me as well—is a huge fan of the crime procedurals that have dominated television in recent years, e.g., NCIS, the entire CSI (and the NY and Miami spin-offs). A...
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Let’s Put a “Lid” on Cooking Fires: Part I
By: Fire Chief (Ret.) Stan Tarnowski Do any these terms sound familiar to you and the people in your department? I know they sound familiar to me and probably most fire department personnel across...
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Let’s Put A “Lid” On Cooking Fires: Part II
By: Fire Chief (Ret.) Stan Tarnowski Welcome back! If you missed Let’s Put a “Lid” on Fire: Part I, or if you want to take a quick refresher, fear not—it’s only a “click” away. (We’ll be right here...
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A New Direction for Fire Protection in the USA
By: Robert Avsec Pick up just about any fire services trade journal, or visit such websites, and you’ll see that leaders in the USA fire services are saying pretty much the same thing: there’s a “new...
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Accepting Change to Link the “3-E’s” of Fire Prevention
By: Jill Cotton with Robert Avsec Education, engineering, and enforcement, collectively referred to as “The 3 E’s” of fire prevention, are “hot” topics in almost any fire service trade magazine,...
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Let’s Put A “Lid” on Cooking Fires: Part III
By: Fire Chief (Ret.) Stan Tarnowski Welcome back! If you missed Let’s Put a “Lid” on Cooking Fires: Part I or Part II, or if you want to take a quick refresher, fear not—it’s only a “click” away....
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Fire Sprinklers Save Lives–And Firefighters
Where is our leadership on the issue of having residential fire sprinklers installed in all new single (SFD) and multi-family dwellings (MFD) in the USA? Why hasn’t every State Fire Marshal Office in...
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The Finale: Let’s Put a “Lid” on Cooking Fires, Part IV
By: Fire Chief (Ret.) Stan Tarnowski The leading cause of kitchen fires in the USA–unattended cooking Welcome back! If you missed Let’s Put a “Lid” on Cooking Fires: Part I or Part II or Part III, or...
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Get Community Commitment to Your Community Risk Reduction Plan
By: Robert Avsec In my previous missive, I discussed how the public’s expectations for the role of social media in disasters and emergencies are expanding. Are you and your department up to the...
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Unsprinklered Buildings are Unprotected Buildings–and so are Those Who Occupy...
By: Robert Avsec Joanne Genadio, Marketing Manager at National Fire Sprinkler Association, is one of my LinkedIn colleagues. Joanne is a “Superstar” Promoter of Fire Sprinkler Systems and she...
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Food-on-Stove Fire Needlessly Claims Another Victim
By: Robert Avsec June 24, 2013. A pot of grease left on the stove started a fire that killed a Macon man Saturday afternoon. The blaze that started about 1:15 p.m. at 2325 Mafiel Drive has been ruled...
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Stopping Food-on-the-Stove Fires with a Team Approach
By: Fire Chief (Ret.) Stan Tarnowski Today I’m going to share some additional support information that will help you get HEHLT into your community to start eradicating food-on-the-stove (FOS) fires....
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What will it take to get HEHLT on every electric stove top in the USA?
By: Robert Avsec In the latest edition of the NFPA Journal on-line dated July 1, 2013, contains an article by Frank Durso The leading cause of kitchen fires in the USA–unattended cooking entitled,...
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Let’s Get Serious About Preventing Kitchen Fires, Shall We?
By: Robert Avsec We’re almost halfway through Fire Prevention Month 2013 and I’ve been seeing many great posts from Fire & EMS organizations and individuals across my various social media...
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Businesses and Fire
By: Robert Avsec Tis the holiday season once again in the USA and around the world. The shopping center parking lots are filled with more cars than any other time of the year. Who doesn’t “dread”...
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Children Don’t Cause Fires, Adults Do
By: Robert Avsec The behaviors of adults in the USA account for 78 percent of the preventable residential fires. So why do the vast majority of fire prevention educations that Fire and EMS...
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Fire Prevention Isn’t Just for Everyone Else
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer Recently, a fire broke out in the firehouse of the Goldens Bridge (NY) Fire Department. The early morning blaze was discovered around 9:00 a.m. with an alarm...
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Reader Comments: Children Don’t Cause Fires, Adults Do
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer In response to my blog post, Children Don’t Cause Fires, Adults Do, Chief Steve Marler, San Juan Island (WA) Fire Department wrote: Hello. You pose an...
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Tampa II: Food-for-Thought 4 “Get Away Day”
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer Today wraps up the three-day Tampa II conference and workshops where 350 fire and EMS leaders and industry “insiders” have gathered to review the progress...
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NFIRS: It’s not a Data “Black Hole”
By: Sara Wood, NFIRS Program Manager “It’s a requirement.” “It’s a black hole.” “It’s paperwork.” Nope, it’s the National Fire Information Reporting System (NFIRS). NFIRS is a program that can...
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