CBS News: Federal funding cuts lead FEMA to cancel classes at National Fire Academy

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that National Fire Academy courses were canceled amid a "process of evaluating agency programs and spending to ensure alignment with Administration priorities," according to a notice sent to instructors, students and fire departments. Instructors were told to cancel all future travel until further notice.

Firefighters, EMS providers and other first responders from across the country travel to the NFA's Maryland campus for the federally funded institution's free training programs."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-national-fire-academy-cources-cancellation/

Royal Ramey - Former Incarcerated Firefighter on Prison-to-Public Service Pipeline | The Daily Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Oaj5iQA-w #Firefighting

The time of final departure is approaching. The weather is good for the next week. The lingering bugs in the engines are getting worked out. Pre-journey test flights hopefully Saturday and Sunday! It's going to be a big weekend in #PortAlberni with the 1920s Steam Train and 1940s Flying Boat in operation!
#MartinMars #Aviation #WWII #Firefighting #BCWildfire #PhilippineMars #History

One of the unique things I get to do is go to large wildfires and provide information to the communities in the path of or around a fire. The sights are always awe inspiring.

Oh wow, exploding tire was what killed a firefighter in Palmdale earlier this year (initially a thought was arson/etc. but it appears it was failure of a giant construction vehicle tire turning things into shrapnel). #firefighting #LACOFD https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-24/its-just-like-a-bomb-how-a-burning-truck-killed-an-l-a-county-firefighter

After years of focus on the toxic culture across the country's police forces, it comes (sadly) as little surprise that suggestions that the Fire Service might be similarly home to toxic attitudes have been confirmed by an investigation by the Firefighting Inspectorate.

If the Police experience is indicative, it will be a long hard fight to eradicate these attitudes, but the first step is accepting they actually *are* a problem!

#firefighting #toxicmasculinity

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/01/englands-fire-brigades-rife-with-pockets-of-abhorrent-behaviour

THE STRESS of being an editorial cartoonist is compared to other stressful professions by #TonyAuth. #Stress #ATC #Anxiety #teaching #firefighting #doctors #policing #AirTrafficControllers

Did 18th century firefighters really let buildings burn if their insurance marks weren't on them?

No, but sometimes yes if they did not show up in time.

#history #video #TomScott #firefighting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wif1EAgEQKI

I guess it is time for an #introduction .I am a firefighter in the United States in the Washington DC metro area. Currently living in VA with my wife and 2 boys who we are raising to be good human beings. Looking to follow and connect with people of all different interest and backgrounds.

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