Red Deer's high school academy aims to spark interest in firefighting careers
With Red Deer's fire academy program, high school students will get hands-on, practical skills that could land them a job — and potentially help bolster the ranks of firefighters in rural Alberta.
#education #careers #firefighting #RedDeer #Alberta
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/red-deer-fire-fighting-academy-rural-volunteering-on-call-recruitment-concerns-9.7085516?cmp=rss

Red Deer's high school academy aims to spark interest in firefighting careers
With Red Deer's fire academy program, high school students will get hands-on, practical skills that could land them a job — and potentially help bolster the ranks of firefighters in rural Alberta.
#education #careers #firefighting #RedDeer #Alberta
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/red-deer-fire-fighting-academy-rural-volunteering-on-call-recruitment-concerns-9.7085516?cmp=rss

🚒 Ten rural fire departments in Mendocino and Humboldt counties now have new Type 6 engines, improving wildfire, rescue and medical response in difficult terrain.

Funded through $2 million in state support, the engines arrive just ahead of fire season.

https://mendovoice.com/2026/02/modern-fire-trucks-bring-new-resilience-to-an-entire-region/?utm_campaign=tmv&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Mendocino #Humboldt #WildfirePreparedness #FireSeason #Firefighting

FireSat adds orbit-visualization software to help firefighters plan around satellite passes

https://spacenews.com/firesat-adds-orbit-visualization-software-to-help-firefighters-plan-around-satellite-passes/

#space #firefighting #satellites #disaster

I am currently recruiting Fire Departments for a study on your use of paper maps versus spatial computing options. If you are interested, please visit the official recruitment message and link to the survey. https://justincolegis.com/invitation-to-participate-study-on-mapping-tools-in-fire-district-operations/ #GIS #FireFighting #FireResponse #SpatialComputing #HCI

Networked, AI-powered, cloud-controlled fire hydrants are a great thing... FOR A DOG TO PEE ON

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/25/this-founder-cracked-firefighting-now-hes-creating-an-ai-gold-mine/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

#tech #hardware #firefighting #spiffy

FEMA is cutting payments to local fire departments that fight wildfires. This will hurt hundreds of local departments and may discourage the practice of mutual aid.
#FEMA
#wildfires
#firefighting

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/fema-cuts-fire-departments-21307051.php

#fireFighting #techcrunch
Using #physics and #AI to fight fires more effectively and efficiently. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/25/this-founder-cracked-firefighting-now-hes-creating-an-ai-gold-mine/

**Bài đăng:**
🔥 Cảnh sát Hà Nội giải cứu thành công một người mắc kẹt tại tầng 4 trong đám cháy ở số 11 ngõ 339 Minh Khai (phường Vĩnh Tuy). Lực lượng chức năng đã leo thang tiếp cận để đưa nạn nhân ra ngoài an toàn.

\#TinNóng #CứuHỏa #HàNội
\#BreakingNews #Firefighting #Hanoi

https://vietnamnet.vn/leo-thang-tiep-can-tang-cao-canh-sat-dua-nguoi-mac-ket-khoi-nha-chay-2482873.html

Battling blazes in the winter comes with extra challenges for P.E.I.’s firefighters
Putting out fires can be tough at the best of times, but firefighters on the Island have to deal with extra difficulties over the cold winter months — from getting themselves to the station in the middle of a snowstorm to the hazards created by all that water freezing at the scene. CBC’s Sheehan Desjardins spoke with some department ...
#firefighting #winter #PEI
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7045389?cmp=rss

Looks like this amphibious SEAT is refilling from the Murray River?

(Or might just be missing data that makes it look like it)

#VicFires #Flightradar24 #Aviation #Firefighting

Victorian Firefighters Battle Blazes in 30-Year-Old Trucks Without Air Conditioning http://dlvr.it/TQH0f4 #Australia #BreakingNews #FireFighting #Uncategorized

CFA under funded whilst Jacinta Allan wastes $776 million on a treaty http://dlvr.it/TQH0dY #Australia #BreakingNews #FireFighting #CFA

Swiss officials admit a safety inspections lapse at the bar where 40 died in the NYE fire.

Swiss authorities on Tuesday said that fire safety inspections had not been carried out since 2019 at Le Constellation bar.

The law requires the municipal fire department to conduct annual inspections in establishments open to the public.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260106-swiss-officials-admit-a-safety-inspections-lapse-at-the-bar-where-40-died-in-the-nye-fire?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#CransMontana #FireSafety #Switzerland #Fire #Firefighting

Orange County has failed to renew their QRF contract...

https://abc7.com/post/orange-county-fire-authority-board-allows-firefighting-helicopter-contract-expire/18344070/

#wildfires #OCFA #OrangeCounty #firefighting

Máy xúc đã được huy động để phá dỡ cấu kiện sụp đổ tại Chợ Xanh (Hà Nội), tạo lối đi cho lực lượng cứu hỏa tiếp cận và dập tắt đám cháy.
#ChợXanh #HàNội #ĐámCháy #PCCC #CứuHỏa #MáyXúc
#Hanoi #MarketFire #Firefighting #EmergencyResponse #Excavator

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