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NFPA 1852 SCM - SCBA – Free Access
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NFPA Codes and Standards – Why we need your help!
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Enforcer Program • What is an ‘Enforcer’ • Why does NFPA have this program • Who can be an enforcer • What’s covered
– 80% of eligible expenses – Travel, Mileage, Ground Transportation – Meals – Lodging
– Well defined and on approval of NFPA Staff Liaison
NPFA Updates
• “Your Voice Matters” • Surveys show
– 86 % of ff’s have never participated in an NFPA process – 75% of ff’s want to know more – 81% of ff’s want to be made aware of deadlines for input and
comment
• Need more Firefighter participation – On-line platform making it easier to participate – Need to make stds work for you – not get in the way – Don’t know how or fear voice won’t be heard
– New web page “Standards in Action” • Streamlines and simplifies process for input and comments
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Standards in Action – Web Page
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Standards in Action and why we need your help
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Standards in Action and why we need your help
• Central Location for fire services members to see – Standards that are in revision – New projects being considered – Gateway to submit comments
• Outreach and communication effort to make it easier for fire services members to – Engage – See the role NFPA standards and guides play
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Fire Protection Research • Recently completed Research
– Fire Fighter Safety and Emergency Response for Electric Drive and Hybrid Electric Vehicles – Final Report (2010)
– Pathways for Building Fire Spread at WUI – Apr. 2015 – Evaluation and Enhancement of PASS Effectiveness – Apr. 2015 – Hazard Assessment of Lithium Ion batteries in ESS – ongoing – Liquid Integrity Research in First Responder Ensembles – Validation of PPE Cleaning Procedures and Contaminant
Removal from FF – PPE – ongoing
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Fire Protection Research
• Recently completed Research (cont.) – Fire Safety Challenges in Tall-Wood Buildings – ongoing – Developing the Research Roadmap for SMART FF – June 2015
– Use of Cyber Physical Systems in Fire Fighting – Big data and Interoperability of the ‘Internet of Things’
– SMART Enforcement – Workshop – Tempe, AZ – Nov. 2015 – Analysis of Recruit/Initial Fire Fighter Training Curricula – Development of Emergency Responder SOPs/SOGs: Using
Crowdsourcing to Address Electric Vehicle Fires (2014) – Evaluation of Fire Service Training (2014)
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National Fire Protection Association
ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLE SAFETY TRAINING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS
13.9 Million Electric & Hybrid Vehicles are predicted World-wide by 2018.
Are you Prepared to Respond?
Faces of Fire – Phil Tammaro
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• Call to Action! • Firefighter Safety (lightweight
construction and combustible contents) • Sprinkler Coalitions growing across the US
and Canada (BC, Alberta and Ontario) • Education and Advocacy
– Tool Kits • Funding available
– Grants and Stipends – Side X Side Burns – Sprinkler Summits
• We’re ready, willing and able to help – Just give us a call!
MFCA Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition?
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Provincial Fire Sprinkler Coalitions
• Vision for Canada • Strategy • National Coalition Group
including CAFC working closely with Fire Chiefs in B.C. Alberta, Ontario and Maritimes to form Provincial Coalitions
• Promoting Side X Side Burn Demonstrations
• Advocating for Code changes and Grants
• Provincial and National Sprinkler Summits
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Other Services • NFPA Xchange • Research and Data reports
– What does NFPA report on in US – Is there interest in doing so in Canada
• Menu of NFPA Research and Survey Services – over and above NFIRS in US
• The Fire Loss Survey • Fire Experience Survey • Needs Assessment Survey • Database of Fatalities and Incidents of Special Interest
(FIDO)
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