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Job Journal March 9, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Emergency Medical Technician (Emt) Job Prospects are good for EMTs, who bring critical care whenever and wherever it's needed. |
Job Journal April 18, 2004 Julia Hollister |
Proud Service: Careers in Public Safety Opportunity in law enforcement abound for those who want to wear a badge. Check out these great career opportunities and website resources. |
Job Journal October 28, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Police Officer Police officers can be sure of steady demand for their courage and dedication. |
Job Journal November 12, 2006 Julia Hollister |
Perseverance is Key to Positions in Public Safety Applicants face tough challenges on the road to the front lines of jobs in public safety. |
Job Journal November 26, 2006 Rich Heintz |
You Can't Rush a Government Job Patience can pay off when you endure the government's hiring process. |
National Defense May 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
First Responders: To Fight Terror, Cross-Training Needed First responders should be trained to deal with a myriad of emergencies, from nuclear to biological attack. |
National Defense July 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Emergency Responders Hone Skills Amid the Rubble One of the first skills firefighters and other first responders learn at the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center is how to hoist a slab of concrete off a rubble pile using only their muscles. |
Inc. December 1, 2009 April Joyner |
Elevator Pitch: ERT Systems The safety tracker from ERT Systems helps firefighters keep track of one another. Will the company light a fire under investors? |
Registered Rep. April 29, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
Putting Out Fires: Shawn Babendure Advisor Shawn Babendure became a financial advisor, overseeing $152 million for clients with UBS in The Woodlands, a suburban development north of Houston. He is also a volunteer fire fighter. |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2004 Curtis Massey |
High-Rise Fires: What Owners Should Know About Fire Department Operations In the general real estate community, there seems to be a pervasive belief that as long as codes are met and an evacuation or life-safety plan is on file with the city that all of a building owner's bases are covered. This is untrue. |
National Defense December 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Wildland Firefighters Add Robotic Systems to Their Wish List Firefighters throughout the United States revealed that their number one need was a vehicle that could autonomously haul heavy equipment up and down mountains. |
Chemistry World January 28, 2011 Yuandi Li |
Firefighters need more protection from chemical fumes Researchers are looking to investigate fire fumes from vehicles, such as hybrid and electric cars, and to use new personal monitors that employ whole air sampling principles to collect gases and vapors to measure even more chemicals. |
Wired June 2005 Joshua Davis |
The Fire Rebels They're taking on the American firefighting establishment with a precision method of dousing flames. The hot new way to save lives and burning buildings: bursts of delicate fog. |
Job Journal October 31, 2004 Julia Hollister |
Industry Profile: Law Enforcement Agencies in Hot Pursuit of Crime Solvers Local, state and federal agencies are in search of crime-solving sleuths. |
Energize December 2007 Susan J. Ellis |
Helper Triage: Volunteer Management in Emergencies It's imperative that citizen volunteers be a subject for consideration in any emergency plan and that at least one authorized person be designated solely to be in charge of volunteer mobilization when a crisis occurs. |
BusinessWeek September 9, 2010 Selway & Rosenkrantz |
Sounding the Alarm for Firefighters' Pay Union President Harold Schaitberger is trying to protect pay and benefits threatened by strapped municipal governments |
CIO January 30, 2013 Stephanie Overby |
iPad App Helps Forest Service Distribute Maps for Firefighters The U.S. Forest Service deploys a mobile map application for firefighters and emergency responders to use in the field and for tactical planning |
National Defense September 2014 Chelsea Todaro |
New Simulators Amp Up Training for First Responders Disaster response planners and first responders are the beneficiaries of some new modeling and simulation programs. |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2002 Bennett Voyles |
Between a Lock and a Hard Place Now, some property managers are putting routine improvements and remodeling on the backburner to devote resources to security and safety upgrades. |
Fast Company May 2012 Rachel Z. Arndt |
Progress Report -- Intel Fireball Build an orb that can be tossed inside a burning building to gather information and send it back to firefighters -- almost like a satellite sending data back to NASA. The 1.5-pound Fireball gathers data and uploads it instantly via built-in Wi-Fi. Firefighters can pull up information on an app. |
Entrepreneur April 2003 Daniel Tynan |
In Case of Emergency A smoke alarm or a life preserver may save your life, but they won't save your business. You need a real disaster plan now. Your business's survival depends on it. |
Salon.com August 20, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Too hot to handle The New York Fire Department suffered a communications breakdown on Sept. 11, and hundreds of firefighters died. Why are so many journalists ignoring the story? |
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna |
Robot Puts Out Shipboard Fires Another possibility currently under development is sending robots to find and put out fires aboard Navy ships. |
Chemistry World April 18, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Deadly blast destroys US fertilizer plant A devastating fire and explosion have destroyed a US fertilizer plant, killing several people and injuring many more. |
CIO February 15, 2007 Michael Useem |
Decisions Under Pressure A tragic wildfire provides lessons about how leaders can make the best call when there's no time and no room for mistakes. |
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
New Database to Help Identify Hazardous Substances As concerns mount about terrorist use of chemical weapons, one company has unveiled a database that will enable firefighters and other first responders to identify unknown substances. |
CIO February 23, 2015 Mary K. Pratt |
California Firefighters Battle Blazes With Data From the Cloud Crews on the ground use mobile devices to access digital images and data streams as they plan their strategies for responding to California wildfires. |
Wired Damon Tabor |
LAFD's One-Man Geek Squad Brings Web 2.0 to Firefighting The Los Angeles Fire Department is bringing it's team into the twenty-first century by using Twitter and BlogTalkRadio to broadcast information to the public quickly. |
Popular Mechanics December 4, 2007 Erik Sofge |
First Firefighting Robots Deployed, Could Spark Autonomous Dept. Bomb-squad bots are already a common tool for local law enforcement agencies and the military, but remote-controlled firefighters are just now making it into the field. |