Arizona Fire and Burn Educators Association

 While training specific for firefighters may not be a direct resource for public fire safety, the better trained firefighters are, the better protection for the community, right? For that reason, I am thankful for the opportunity to share the announcement below from the FSRI team in hopes that you may share this news with your department’s training officer.   Today, FSRI has partnered with the International Society of Fire Service Instructors to announce our latest collaboration – a new online course titled, “Evidence-Based Structural Firefighting.” This training addresses fire control within a structure by establishing a basic understanding of fire science and fire dynamics and highlights takeaways from NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Firefighting. Released in 2021, this keystone document brings together the science, knowledge, and experience of firefighting.  Please see the attached announcement release for additional details to share with your organization/stakeholders. ISFSI/FSRI

In your Community Risk Assessment what would formative research show about injuries from falls? Does it rise to a concern or priority to address? From my recall going back several decades of following CDC injury data related to demographics injuries related to falls for older adults was always high on the list of occurrences. It was also usually one of the top medical incidents my department responded to. As we have seen CRR is a good way to work on the issue of fall injuries if you feel in your community it rises to one of your critical few priorities. The benefits or positive outcome can be that you reduce the risk of disabling injuries, you reduce the need for some end of life care, you increase quality of life for some residents and you may reduce some of your EMS runs. These are just some of the possibilities.      Why did I think of this? An article this morning in my Axios news feed had a brief about it and here is what they said. There are even some ideas of how to help.   Mike

 

Dear Pool and Spa Safety Community, The 2022 swim season is underway, and we hope you are all enjoying a safe and fun start to the summer!  Pool Safely  wants to share with you, our valued collaborators, the updated toolkit designed just for you, CPSC’s latest drowning data, updates about  Pool Safely  stories and reminders about the   grant program. The 2022  collaborator toolkit  is now available for download via  poolsafely.gov ! As always, it shares our latest messaging for your use; CPSC’s new drowning data; sample social media posts you can repurpose in English and Spanish – and more. Last week,  Pool Safely  released its latest report that shares new drowning as well as fatal and non-fatal injury data.  You can find the press release that contains the full report  here , but the highlights include: Across 2017 through 2019, there were 389 pool- or spa-related, fatal drownings reported per year involving children younger than 15 years of age. Pool- or spa-related, hospital depart

For Father’s Day weekend, feel free to utilize either of our video resources below to not only recognize father figures, but to also remind your community to take care of them by ensuring they have working smoke alarms! The following content was provided by the Fire Safety Research Institute and are available for your use.  For additional resources, visit  smokealarms.ul.org . Smoke Alarm | Dad, How do I? Father's Day Illustrations for facebook/instagram/twitter

  “Safety Squad” is a new program, designed by Virginia Beach Fire Department’s Life Safety Education Team.  We have just completed our 1st semester back in schools, and we are so excited to share these resources with everyone! Here’s one more FREE curriculum for your toolbox!    VBFD’s Safety Squad pairs digitally engaging lessons (delivered by PE staff) along with interactive learning stations (facilitated by Life Safety Educators and Firefighters) to teach students in grades K-5 th  about fire safety and injury prevention.  Each year, 30,000 students across 56 VB elementary schools will participate in action-based learning stations that align with Virginia’s State Learning Objectives in Health and PE and NFPA’s Desk Reference in Educational Messaging.       We certainly aren’t the 1 st  department to utilize portable door & window props to facilitate basic fire safety concepts in a gym class setting.  Covid gave us the downtime to break away from the traditional classroom lectur