Tag Archives: Learning

Life Safety Educators – Should They Be Integral to Community Safety?

Five Questions (and YOUR Answers) for anyone interested in Life Safety Education   1)    For readers involved in community’s emergency/disaster planning, do you include individuals providing Life Safety Education in the planning phases? Why, or why not? 2)    Who provides Life Safety Education in your community? 3)    Do you provide details to your Life Safety Educators so that they can ...

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A Presentation Skills Guidebook For Beginners

Many people ask about how to approach their first time presenting. Here’s a great interactive guide to help you make sure that you’re stepping off on the right foot! See on Scoop.it – Emergency Services Use this Presentation Skills Guidebook – Beginner’s edition as your handy checklist to refer to in the days leading up to your presentation. See on ...

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Searching and Learning:

  As Educators Must We Still Seek Learning When It Becomes Difficult? The other day I StumbledUpon an article explaining the different laws of physics that work to keep airplanes, well, in the air and how what I thought I knew about aerodynamics was wrong. Having gone to engineering school at one time, I was intrigued.

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Embracing Who We Are As Firefighters

Firefighters Problem:  Embracing the age old joke, embracing who we are as firefighters, and maybe embracing the damn cat, too.   Back in November I remember slugging into a couch to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade with my son. My favorite three year old was fascinated and loved watching the balloons and floats come down the road.  (Mostly because he ...

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We’ll See You Out There – RescueDigest Conferences & Gatherings 2012 (So Far)

  RescueDigest is dedicated to finding and sharing Best Practices across all branches of Emergency Services. Our staff travels all over North America delivering Educational Programs and Keynote Presentations for Police, Fire, EMS, Rescue, Emergency Management and Healthcare conferences. If you’re going to be at a conference where we’re presenting, hit us up and say hello. There’s nothing better than ...

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Fire Code for First Responders

Fire Code for 1st Responders   The fire of today is not your grandmother’s fire. Furnishings today contain so much foam and other plastics that the BTU release is much greater than a fire 30-50 years ago. In addition, what hazards do newer construction products and methods present for all first responders arriving at a burning or damaged building?

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RescueDigest Announces Collaboration with Police News TV

RescueDigest is proud to announce our collaboration with PoliceNewsTV   Rescue Digest is proud to announce it’s collaboration with Police News TV, the the national law enforcement video news show “by Cops, about Cops, for Cops”.  A daily HD video and audio news show, Police News TV reports news about law enforcement from around the country that you can watch or ...

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