In a unique residential facility in Maryland, firefighters suffering from PTSD, depression, substance abuse and other disorders developed on the job are being treated among their own in a place created to make them feel comfortable opening up about their problems.
After the fire department in Deep River, Ontario encountered financial problems that left it short-staffed and under-resourced, the corporation running Chalk River Laboratories nuclear facility agreed to manage the town’s fire services until July of 2018.
California’s Skirball fire started as a cooking fire under a freeway in a homeless camp. The homeless services community fears a backlash against the city’s poorest inhabitants.
New Brunswick’s Association of Fire Chiefs wants to know where the funds raised under provincial legislation for the Fire Marshall’s Office are actually going.
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service has admitted that its female firefighters have faced systemic gender discrimination for years. The City of Halifax publicly apologised to one former female firefighter in December.
When cases of children 12 and under setting fires escalated in Regina the fire department, working with community partners, introduced a new intervention approach that has reduced the number of fires set by children to record lows.
Following a series of newspaper articles that detailed the high cancer risk among firefighters Ohio fire chiefs are purchasing gear and equipment and implementing new procedures to protect their crews from harmful exposures to carcinogens.
By tweaking the chemical mix of the electrolyte used in lithium-ion batteries scientists at the University of Tokyo have developed a battery showing negligible volatility up to 150 degrees Celsius.