Fire Departments Can Win More Grant Funding: Here’s How
Sep 27, 2024
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Competition, stress, and resources — these three words most likely come to mind when fire departments think about writing proposals to...
5 Things Fire Departments Need To Know About the NFIRS to NERIS Transition
Aug 16, 2024
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The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) has recently led the development and launch of a beta version of the new interoperable fire information...
How Fire and Battalion Chiefs Can Get the Data They Need for Funding, Staffing, and Safety
Apr 9, 2024
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Almost every fire department relies on some sort of software to collect data and file with the National Fire Incident Reporting System...
How Collecting Payment for Inspections is Changing the Fire Industry
May 10, 2022
1 min read
In a recent webinar, Pasco County Fire and Rescue (PCFR) Fire Marshal, Justin Frum, discussed how his team overcame the challenges...
Six Reasons You Can’t Miss ZOLL Summit 2022
Feb 22, 2022
3 min read
ZOLL’s largest educational event of the year, ZOLL Summit, brings hundreds of EMS, Fire, and healthcare professionals from all over the...
Train Your New Gal (and Old Guy) on Documentation
Oct 29, 2019
3 min read
(5 Min Read) Let's face it, a one hour of discussion about threatening lawsuits or a courtroom credibility shredding during someone's...
EMS and Fire: Unique Challenges and Solutions
Sep 25, 2019
4 min read
How Chris Davison of Tucson Fire tackles challenges and optimizes for efficiency (6 min read) Chris Davison has been the Ambulance Billing...
NFORS: Using Technology to Document Firefighter Exposure to Carcinogens and IDLH Conditions
Jul 5, 2019
3 min read
(4 min read) Firefighters’ concerns have changed rapidly over the past decade. We have always been focused on our personal readiness and...
Can CISD Heal a Culture?
Jun 24, 2019
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(5 min read) There is no debating the fact that responder PTSD and suicide has become an epidemic. It seems we cannot visit any of the...
Using ZOLL X-series, Case Review and Sidewalk CPR to double ROSC rates
Brittany Frater | Jun 18, 2019
(5 min read) After attending King County Resuscitation Academy, Cosumnes Fire started to use the data provided by the ZOLL X series and...
ZOLL Pulse Awards 2019: Celebrating our Exceptional EMS Practitioners
Brittany Frater | May 17, 2019
Another successful SUMMIT on the books! As we reflect on the events of the last week, once again the team at ZOLL would like to...
Prescription CPR
Dr. Joseph Sabato | Mar 5, 2019
ZOLL SUMMIT Speaker Series Advanced Cardiac Life Support was first published by the American Heart Association in 1974. Despite 45 years of...
ZOLL SUMMIT Keynote Speaker Series: Behind the Scenes with Jan Rader
Kelli Turner | Dec 11, 2018
ZOLL SUMMIT Keynote Speaker Series: Behind the Scenes with Jan Rader “Fire chief Jan Rader has spent her career running toward fires and...
6 Reasons You Can’t Miss SUMMIT 2019
Kelli Turner | Oct 30, 2018
ZOLL SUMMIT is ZOLL’s largest educational event of the year that brings together hundreds of EMS and fire professionals from all over the...
Company Officers: Fire’s First Line of Safety in the Field
Clay Fenwick | Nov 21, 2017
Most paid Fire and EMS departments or organizations have a dynamic on their fire apparatus that isn’t included on their ambulances. No,...
Learn More About the NFPA & How You Can Make a Difference
Clay Fenwick | Nov 16, 2017
Many believe the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to be a regulatory body. Actually, the NFPA is a global nonprofit...
Powerful Reporting Tool FireRMS Helps Agencies Piece Together Emergency Incidents
Jonathan Lee | Sep 19, 2017
RescueNet FireRMS has been, and will continue to be, the mainstay reporting tool documenting incidents for the Omaha Fire Department. We...
Struggling to Find Funding for Your EMS Agency? Apply for a Grant
Josh Hurguy | Jun 15, 2017
Many of us in the fire and emergency medical service (EMS) industry are familiar with the process of searching for a funding source once a...
How to Get Your Hospital Partners to Share EMS Data
Captain Melanie Bate, Omaha Fire | Jan 12, 2017
Omaha Fire is currently working to share our patient care reports (PCRs) with local hospitals, with the caveat that we would receive...
Conformity: A Real Threat To A Just Culture
Sally McCabe | Oct 11, 2016
Just culture refers to a values-supportive model of shared accountability. It's a culture that holds organizations accountable for the...
Practice As You Play: Be Prepared for a MCI Event in Your Community
Con Olson | Sep 26, 2016
Emergency services changed greatly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Did we sustain the change? If you are from a metropolitan area, you...
I Remember, I Mourn & This Year I Dance
Sally McCabe | Sep 6, 2016
I wrote this post last year on the fourteenth anniversary of a day that I, like most New Yorkers, will never forget. Like many others, I...
Let Your Voice be Heard on NFIRS Codes
Mat Jackmond | Oct 29, 2014
Did you know that your voice needs to be heard about “NFIRS Codes”? For those of you that think that you have to live with the...
For Mobile Access to Fire Data, is 100% Connectivity Even Possible?
Kelli Turner | Oct 23, 2013
I attended a webinar last week hosted by Hanover Fire and EMS entitled – “How mobile is your fire data management system?” I thought I...
What Does Your NFIRS Data Tell You?
Jim Schell | Oct 9, 2013
Some might say "I don’t use the data, I only report it to the Feds so that I can get grant money"; others might say "it tells me how well...
NFIRS: More than Just a Necessary Evil
Stewart Smith | Dec 7, 2012
Have you ever thought...NFIRS doesn’t benefit my department; it is just a necessary evil?
