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Fire Rescue Magazine Number Crunching: Stats from Fire Fighter Close Calls on public safety budget cuts

Number Crunching Initial conclusions from reader input to FireFighterCloseCalls.com about nationwide public safety budget cuts By Shannon Pieper Note: This article is part of a special FireRescue magazine series on the economy and its effects on the fire service. If you read the Secret List, the noncommercial and free e-newsletter from FireFighterClosecalls.com (FFCC), you know that for a few months n… Continue

Added by Fire Rescue Magazine on June 9, 2009 at 11:36am — No Comments

Fire Rescue Magazine Data-Driven: How to track specific performance factors to prove your department's worth

A Different Kind of Size-Up Departments that can empirically demonstrate their value are best positioned to survive economic downturns By Todd J. LeDuc, MS, CFO, CEM Note: This article is part of a special FireRescue magazine series on the economy and its effects on the fire service. Successful private sector businesses have long used a data-driven approach to track performance. And, in fact, many EMS systems have well-developed quality and outcome measures that ha… Continue

Added by Fire Rescue Magazine on June 9, 2009 at 11:34am — No Comments

Fire Rescue Magazine Breaking the News: How to inform your personnel about layoffs

Breaking the News How to inform your personnel about layoffs By John Sullivan Note: This article is part of a special FireRescue magazine series on the economy and its effects on the fire service. After a recent Board of Engineers meeting, I had the inauspicious task of telling the firefighters on my shift that our department will face a tremendously difficult fiscal year in 2010 and what the ramifications of the new budget will mean for all of us. In this economy,… Continue

Added by Fire Rescue Magazine on June 9, 2009 at 11:32am — No Comments

Fire Rescue Magazine When There's No Money for Training: Tips to keep your programs on track

Training During Tough Times Tips to ensure your training programs don’t go on hold due to budget cuts By Homer Robertson Note: This article is part of a special FireRescue magazine series on the economy and its effects on the fire service. It’s hard to get any news from newspapers or electronic media these days that doesn’t reference the difficult economic situation we’re facing. And the fire service media is no different—stories abound about how the economi… Continue

Added by Fire Rescue Magazine on June 9, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Firefighter Nation WebChief Dear Mayor and City Manager ...

CHIEF BILLY GOLDFEDER FireFighterNation.com Commentary Dear Mayor & City Manager, Odds are at this point, as hard as we have tried, you still don't seem to understand the need for our department, YOUR fire department, to be well prepared and fully able to respond quickly when our citizens call 9-1-1 for a fire. Mr. Mayor, this has nothing to do with how many fires we have -- it has everything to do with every fire we have. Actually, at this point, Mr. Mayor and Manager, you are pro… Continue

Added by Firefighter Nation WebChief on June 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — 6 Comments

Shannon Pieper, FireRescue Magazine Final Stimulus Package: $210 million for fire station construction

The full text of the compromise stimulus bill was finally released today, and the House has already passed it; Senate voting starts at 5:30 eastern and the bill is expected to pass. As reported by the IAFC, the compromise bill includes several items of interest to the fire service: • $210 million for fire station construction via the firefighter assistance grants program, with no grant exceeding $15 million. This was a co… Continue

Added by Shannon Pieper, FireRescue Magazine on February 13, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Shannon Pieper, FireRescue Magazine Stimulus Package Update

The full text of the Senate-passed stimulus bill has been posted. Couple notes about fire/EMS funding: FIREFIGHTER ASSISTANCE GRANTS For an additional amount for competitive grants, $500,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2010, for modifying, upgrading, or constructing State and local fire stations: Provided, That up to 5 percent shall be for program administration: Provided further, That no grant shall exc… Continue

Added by Shannon Pieper, FireRescue Magazine on February 10, 2009 at 5:22pm — 24 Comments

Shannon Pieper, FireRescue Magazine The Good of the Whole

Recently I was talking with one of my fire service colleagues about the economic problems it seems nearly all departments are facing. He said he was happy because at least for the time being, his department had managed to avoid position eliminations or other drastic measures in exchange for all members agreeing to a 4 percent pay cut across the board. Now it’s surely a sign of the times that taking a 4 percent pay cut seems like a good thing, but his comment got me thinking. In my world of priv… Continue

Added by Shannon Pieper, FireRescue Magazine on February 10, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

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