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 MAFF
provides fire safety materials
throughout the state
The
Michigan Association of Fire Fighters Learn Not To Burn Program
(LNTB) has touched every county in the state of Michigan. MAFF has
supplied over 1,120 LNTB programs - free of charge - to elementary
schools, fire departments, and preschool administrators statewide...more
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Official
Publication of the
Michigan Association
of Fire Fighters
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Michigan
Association
of Fire Fighters
Director Michael O'Lear
and Michigan Governor
Jennifer Granholm
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 MAFF
fights to protect POC jobs in Novi
MAFF members very existence is being threatened by the employer in
Novi. The Union believes that there is a concerted effort to force
paid on call officers out of the department and replace them only
with full-time fire fighters...more |
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 Emergency
Vehicle Safe Operations
Year after year, approximately 25 percent of the fire fighters who
are killed in the line of duty are responding to or returning from
incidents, with the majority of the fatalities from vehicle crashes.
This represents the second leading cause of firefighter fatalities
(second only to heart attacks)...more |
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 MAFF's
Learn Not to Burn mission
continues statewide
The Michigan Association of Fire Fighters is reminding its members,
other fire fighters and school officials that it is continuing its
mission of distributing Learn Not to Burn curriculum binders and/or
resource books to schools...more |
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 Troy
Fire Department's new purchase
The Troy Fire Department just recently purchased nine ISG Thermal
Imaging Cameras. According to the National Fire Data Center, the U.S.
has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialized world...more |
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 New
Technology -
Firefighter Tracking Devices
One of the most pressing challenges facing firefighters today is achieving
accurate and complete personnel accountability. Azure
Wireless has announced SafeScene, the
world's first fully automatic accountability
system for first responders...more |
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 "Curious
kids set fires"
MAFF provides fact sheet for
teaching children fire safety.
Fire
fighters know the unpleasant truth better than
anyone else possibly could: every day Americans
experience the tragedy of fire. The statistics are grim...more
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 Novi
Fire Department receives
Homeland Security Grant
The Novi Fire Department has been awarded 2006 Assistance to Firefighters
Grant by the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security for more
than $75,000...more |
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 Walled
Lake Firefighters
raise $3,214 for MDA
On June 30, 2007, ten Walled Lake firefighters
stood at 3 locations with boots in hand, for their
annual Fill-the-Boot fundraising campaign for
children and adults with muscle-wasting
diseases...more |
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 FEMA
wants all SCBA replaced
Fire Apparatus and Emergency Equipment Magazine reports that there
is a proposal
by the Inter-Agency Board (IAB) for
Equipment Standardization and
interoperability, which will require all Self Contained Breathing
Apparatus (SCBA) to use
the same universal air bottle...more |
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