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The National Fire Academy (NFA) has added Five new courses to its fire investigation curriculum.

Campus Security

Accelerate Your Fire Investigator Professional Dev’t with USFA

Tammy Waitt - May 8, 2022

fire safety

Access Control & Identification

New Engineering Guide Available on ‘Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings’

Tammy Waitt - December 17, 2021

This new USFA report describes the characteristics of civilian fire injuries in residential buildings as reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System for 2017-2019. (Courtesy of the USFA)

Crisis Responders

New USFA Home Fire Report & Fire Safety for People with...

Tammy Waitt - August 27, 2021

With the increasing strain on public services in response to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, the professional firefighters, EMTs and emergency service professionals that make up High Rise Escape Systems, believe it is irresponsible to believe emergency services will be obtainable, timely and equipped to provide rescue from multi-story buildings, Air Traffic Control (ATC) towers or other critical infrastructure environments.

Airports/Aviation

Access to Emergency Self-Evacuation is Critical for Multi-Story Buildings

Tammy Waitt - December 21, 2020

On July 7, President Trump signed the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018, requiring the(CDC to develop and maintain a voluntary registry of firefighters

Crisis Responders

New Firefighter Cancer Registry Will Help to Monitor Cancer Incidents

Tammy Waitt - August 7, 2018

According to the Fire Protection Research Foundation (NFPA section 1710) response time or, more specifically, turnout time (is the time from station-acknowledged notification of the emergency until the time the response apparatus leaves the station.) The NFPA standard calls for a turnout time of 60 seconds or less 90 percent of the time or better.

Crisis Responders

Firefighter Turnout Times: How Important is Time of Day?

Tammy Waitt - February 5, 2018

Eighty-nine firefighters (56 volunteer, 23 career and 10 wildland agency) died while on duty in 2016.

Crisis Responders

Firefighter Fatalities in the United States in 2016, Report Released

Tammy Waitt - December 12, 2017

Crisis Responders

Violence Against First Responders, New Report by USFA (Multi-Video)

Tammy Waitt - September 11, 2017

Critical Infrastructure

Grenfell Tragedy: Call to Retrofit High-Rise Bldgs with Fire Sprinklers (Video)

Tammy Waitt - June 20, 2017