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January 2007
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
According to a report published in a recent issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, researchers confirmed previous findings that firefighters are at greater-than-average risk for developing cancer, particularly multiple myeloma, a serious bone marrow cancer. Study authors listed a “probable” association between firefighting and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and prostate and testicular cancers, and classified eight additional cancers as having a “possible” association with firefighting.
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December 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
Volunteer EMS providers have a new tool to help them demonstrate the total annual cost savings that they provide to their communities. With the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) EMS Cost Savings Calculator, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, departments can enter the area and population covered, number of volunteers, salaries of area career personnel and similar information, and savings are automatically calculated.
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November 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
The Houston business community has come to the aid of the city fire department by creating the Fire Fighters Foundation of Houston (FFFH) to raise funds and purchase equipment for the department.
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October 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
Eighteen Pennsylvania ambulance services have filed a class action lawsuit against seven Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCO), charging the insurance companies do not sufficiently reimburse the services for transporting insured Medicaid recipients.
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September 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
Because early defibrillation is key to resuscitating persons with cardiac arrest and because little is known about the reliability of Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs), researchers analyzed US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data to determine the rate and nature of AED recalls and safety alerts.
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May 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
After years of hearings and legal appeals, the US Court of Federal Claims has ruled that junior firefighter Christopher Kangas died in the line of duty and was a firefighter engaged in the suppression of fires. [See Best Practices, May 2005 and July 2004.]
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April 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
Structure Fire Response Times, a new US Fire Administration (USFA) report, found that local fire departments’ response times to structure fires in 2001 and 2002 were less than five minutes in almost 50 percent of all cases.
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March 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
As many departments find they can no longer serve their communities as an all-volunteer force, many have had to turn to paid staff. The Volunteer and Combination Officer Section (VCOS) of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) published a report detailing the steps that fire departments need to take if they are thinking of transitioning from an all-volunteer to a combination department.
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February 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) assessed each state emergency medicine system and gave the state of emergency medicine in this country an overall grade of C-. While no state received a grade of F, none received an A. More than 80 percent of the states earned poor or near-failing grades of C+ to D.
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January 2006
By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the selection of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to lead a consortium to study how the nation can best prepare for and respond to potential large-scale incidents and disasters. JHU will create the Center for the Study of High Consequence Event Preparedness to implement this work.
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