Many EMS professionals complete skill refreshers every 90 days to keep their skills current. A hands-on skill session every 90 days is ideal for workplace lay responders.
On Oct. 30, the energy company announced its profit for the third quarter was $5.2 billion, and crews extinguished a fire at its Texas City refinery, which Marathon Petroleum Corp. plans to buy.
A new app provides real-time safety information to those in the path of deadly wildfires.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced schools will remain closed Wednesday. The toppled crane at the top of a high-rise building under construction at 57th Street is stable and will be secured for removal later, he said.
Several federal agencies are participating in the preparations for Hurricane Sandy, including DoD, FAA, the Coast Guard, and the Department of Energy.
Certain Samaritan 300/300P PAD public access defibrillators made before December 2010 intermittently turn on and off, which eventually may deplete their batteries, the company announced.
The Centers for Health and Public Safety is joining Emergency University to raise awareness about preventable deaths.
Employers still would have to ensure they have an adequate number of trained first aid staffers as identified in their needs assessment. The earliest the law could change is April 2013.
The Oct. 15 ribbon cutting officially opened a 15,200-square-foot facility in Mobile, Ala., that includes a training room, conference rooms, and a multi-function space that can be used for emergency response operations and drills.
The top 10 sources of repeated false fire alarms were hospitals, the London Fire Brigade reported.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin ordered state flags on the State Capitol's grounds to be lowered to half-staff on Oct. 21.
The subsidiary of Tyco International is also celebrating 80 years of operation and its role in helping to safeguard industrial, military, and fire service customers around the world.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security's Watchstander system was activated this week along the Delaware River near Philadelphia, the company announced Oct. 16.
This encouraging finding is reported in the October issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
The Week, a London print magazine, reports a 270-page technical analysis to be presented this week lists five main reasons for the disaster.
The discovery raises the number of fatalities to four in the partial collapse of a five-story parking garage being built in Doral for Miami Dade College.
The Standards Council approved in principle a request to proceed with a standard addressing design, use, testing, and certification of SCBAs for emergency response operations that don’t involve structural firefighting.
The names of 80 members of the fire service who died in 2011 and five from previous years were added to bronze plaques that surround the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Md., Oct. 7.
The state's new plan works to incorporate the highway safety components of engineering, enforcement, education, and emergency response in five emphasis areas.
If owner Daina Shipping Company and its insurer, The Swedish Club, decide to apply for and receive a resource consent to leave part of the wreck in place, Daina will make an additional $10.4 million payment.