Your couch probably has flame retardants embedded in the foam which have been linked to cancers and a range of other problems from obesity to reproductive defects. A growing number of studies in humans and animals suggest that the problems are real and many scientists don’t think the flame retardants are worth the risk.
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/are-you-sitting-down-on-a-couch/?_r=0
This article contains a link to an interesting PowerPoint presentation which suggests the three platoon – 24 hour shift system – provides substantial cost savings.
Three fundamental changes to mind-set that are critical to any effective use of social media when managing an emergency.
1. From ‘We hold the information the community needs and we expect them to come to us’ to ‘We realise we need to go to the community’
2. From ‘We will decide what the community needs’ to ‘The community will tell us what they need’
3. From ‘The public is a liability’ to ‘The public is a resource’
One firefighter remains hospitalized after an engine overturned with five on board. It is time to remind your EVO’s that winter conditions are upon us. This type of incident is avoidable.
“Why is fire management on public lands being turned over to profit-seeking corporations?”, asks the Executive Director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology. The main concern is that private companies may put profit first.
Fire broke out at a two-storey building housing a purse manufacturing factory in Delhi. At least six workers, including four women, were killed and 10 injured in the fire that destroyed the factory.
On Sunday morning, crews battled nearly a dozen deliberately-set fires in St. Boniface. Police said it’s too early to tell if the fires are the work of one person or a group of people.
“Three years ago, there was almost no oil being moved by rail. It’s been growing incredibly rapidly and its projected to keep growing that way and the safety standards in Canada simply have not kept up to the new ways to move new kinds of oil,” a Greenpeace spokesperson said.
A police vehicle was set on fire in New Brunswick as police began enforcing an injunction to end an ongoing demonstration against shale gas exploration.
http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/100780/Cop-cars-set-on-fire-by-molotov-cocktails
When a sudden cardiac arrest strikes every second is crucial so 60 police patrol vehicles and 19 fire department staff vehicles in Vancouver, Washington have been equipped with automated external defibrillators.
http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/oct/01/aed-defibrillator-hearts-police-fire-vehicle/#.Uk2EiIakqk0